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Cambridge college hands back African sculpture to Nigeria

AFP, 28 Oct 2021
To cheers and a trumpet fanfare, a Cambridge University college hands a bronze statue looted during the colonial era back to Nigerian officials, in the first such move by a UK institution. The Okukor statue was among thousands of African artefacts stolen from the continent during British colonial rule.

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