Monday, February 22, 2016

Cambridge students vote to return looted Nigerian statue

Students say a Nigerian statue of a bronze cockerel, which is now displayed at a Cambridge University college, should be returned, according to a report by the Guardian newspaper. 
The statue was looted in the 19th Century and is part of the Benin bronzes taken at that time. Jesus College student Ore Ogunbiyi led the campaign. 
She says that the statue should be repatriated to "weed out the colonial legacies", the Guardian reports. But it is not clear if the college will be sending the cockerel back.

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