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Who owns stolen artwork? Immediately on the present, the bloody journey of a Benin Bronze from West Africa to the halls of one among England’s most elite universities — a story of imperialism, betrayal, and the making of the fashionable world.
Friends:
Ore Ogunbiyi, Africa correspondent for The Economist
Nwando Achebe, the Jack and Margaret Candy Endowed Professor of Historical past at Michigan State College
Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, govt director of the Restitution Research Group
Dan Hicks, professor of latest archaeology on the College of Oxford, and curator on the Pitt Rivers Museum
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