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A bronze cockerel at Cambridge University that had been looted in a British raid on what is now Nigeria will be repatriated.

The Benin bronze, known as an "okukor", was bequeathed to Jesus College in 1930 by a former British Army officer.

Almost 1,000 bronzes were taken after Benin City, in present-day Nigeria, was occupied by imperial troops in 1897, according to the British Museum.

About 900 of those artefacts are housed in museums and collections around the world, including the British Museum.

Jesus College's bronze cockerel, donated by Captain George William Neville, whose son had been a student there, took pride of place in the college dining hall.

No specific date has been given for the return of the statue, nor any details of how it will be done.

Okuko same word in IGBO as hen, it's ok.

Britain is fantastically corrupt and looters, if the artifacts they stole from Africa is returned, they will be poor and we will be richer. They will be in debt.

sweetonugbu:
Britain is fantastically corrupt and looters, if the artifacts they stole from Africa is returned, they will be poor and we will be richer. They will be in debt.

Their wealth is from the sweat of Africans.

Remove all they stole from Africa and they are nothing.
If only our politicians can wake up and see that Africa is the future of the world

Really, when will these guys grant us the true independence?
The same as the Benin statue in the museum which featured in Black panther.