A college at the University of Cambridge is set to return an artifact looted by British soldiers to Nigeria, in a move described as 'the first institutional return of its kind.'
Archivist Robert Athol looks at a bronze statue of a cockerel called The Okukor, at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, England, Oct. 15, 2021. The Cambridge University college will return the looted bronze cockerel to Nigeria later this month, making it the first U.K. institution to hand back one of the artifacts known as the Benin Bronzes.
"This return offers new hope for amicable resolution in cultural property ownership disputes," Professor Abba Isa Tijani, the Director-General of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments of Nigeria, said."We hope that it will set a precedent for others around the world who are still doubtful of this new evolving approach whereby nations and institutions agree with source nations on return without rancour.
"On our part, the National Commission for Museums and Monuments is receiving this antiquity for the benefit of the Benin people and the people of Nigeria," he added.
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