LATE 2021 HAS SEEN a flurry of activity as a number of objects with contested provenances were returned to their countries of origin. In October, Jesus College, Cambridge became the first institution in the world to send back a Benin bronze, looted in 1897, when the sculpture of a cockerel it has held since 1906 was returned to Nigeria.
Aberdeen University quickly followed suit with the restitution of its head of an — king. And in France, the Quai Branly museum in Paris held a six-day exhibition of 26 bronzes
