The sheer number present on the day, estimated at half a million, points to organisational acumen and bodes well for developing the movement, says DIANE ABBOTT
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African antiquities: time to return the loot
The British Museum still refuses to follow countries such as France in returning artefacts stolen during the colonial era — this enables white supremacy and the belief that Africans were too primitive to be able to produce great works of art, argues ROGER McKENZIE
A Benin Bronze plaque on display in the British Museum
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A packed fringe meeting at the National Education Union conference heard from Iranian teachers, campaigners and journalists
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent
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Cypriot lawyer and former central committee member of the Progressive Working People’s Party (Akel) TOUMAZOS TSIELEPIS discusses the case for expelling the British military from Cyprus
US aggression has plunged us into an energy price crisis that will spark steep inflation across the board — and the shock will be much worse than in the 1970s, warns MICHAEL BURKE
AN early scene in the iconic hit movie Black Panther shows the anti-hero, Killmonger, in a museum arguing that an artefact was not made by the Fula tribe as advertised but instead had been taken by British soldiers in Benin and was from the kingdom of Wakanda. A work of fiction informed by fact.
Earlier on this year the government of Germany at last agreed to return to Nigeria its share of the priceless artefacts that were stolen from the kingdom of Benin in 1897.
These treasures, the Benin Bronzes, were looted by the British from the ancient kingdom of Benin. Situated in what is now Nigeria, the kingdom was razed to the ground by the British in retaliation for the killing of a British force a year earlier that had tried to capture the ruler, known as the Oba.
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