Kamm Howard is a premiere leader of the reparations movement in the United States. Dr Jeremiah Wright is President Obama’s former pastor. Professor Winbush is Director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University in Baltimore, one of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the United States. Supporters of this moral claim, led by Professor Raymond Winbush, have addressed a petition, which we publish below, to British, American and German cultural authorities. They have a strong moral case that their wishes should be heard and that bronzes should be kept in Western museums where they are accessible to all.
We reported a month ago that descendants of people captured and sold into slavery by the Benin Kingdom had raised objections to the return of these treasures to the heirs of those who had enslaved their forbears.
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