British College to Be Among the First to Return a Benin Bronze

More than five years after two of the school’s first-ever Black students initiated a discussion about returning the work, a Benin Bronze held for more than 100 years at Jesus College in Cambridge, England, is headed back to Nigeria. Jesus College will be among the first institutions in the U.K. to undertake such a repatriation.
The object being returned is a sculpture of a rooster known in Edo as an Okpa or in English as the Benin Cockerel. Sculptures like it are common at sites paying hom