The Cambridge cockerel is no Cecil Rhodes statue – it should be treated as a masterpiece

Students are calling for the cockerel of Jesus College, looted from Benin in 1897, to be returned to Africa. But it could still find an appropriate home in the UK

Students are right to be unhappy about the sculpture from Benin that stands in the hall of Jesus College, Cambridge. It should either be repatriated, as students demand, or displayed in a totally different place and context.

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