Cambridge University Returns Looted Benin Bronze Artefact ‘Okukor’ To Nigeria

Cambridge University Returns Looted Benin Bronze Artefact ‘Okukor’ To Nigeria

This undated handout photograph received from the University of Cambridge on October 27, 2021, shows the elaborately carved cockerel, known as “Okukor”, which was handed over to a delegation of Nigerian officials during a ceremony at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge on October 27, 2021.  Chris LOADES / University of Cambridge / AFP

 

Nigeria has received a Benin bronze artefact from the University of Cambridge, more than a hundred years after it was taken from the country.

At a ceremony on Wednesday in the UK, the university handed over the artefact to the National…

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