Master of Jesus College Sonita Alleyne with Director General of Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Professor Abba Isa TijaniA Cambridge University college will return a looted bronze cockerel to Nigeria.
The statue, known as the Okukur, was looted by British colonial forces in 1897 and given to Jesus College in 1905 by the father of a student. Students campaigned for the artefact to be returned, and the college's Legacy of Slavery Working Party concluded in 2019 that it"belongs with the current Oba at the Court of Benin".
The Oba of Benin is head of the historic Eweka dynasty of the Benin Empire, centred on Benin City in modern-day Nigeria.Handover documents will be signed at a ceremony at the college on Wednesday to transfer ownership of the Okukur to the delegation from
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