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France returns sacred talking drum looted from Côte d’Ivoire over 100 years ago

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Djidji Ayôkwé was handed to Ivorian officials in Paris earlier this month A sacred artefact looted by French colonial authorities more than a century ago has been returned to Côte d’Ivoire in one of the most significant cultural restitutions to a former French colony in years. The Djidji Ayôkwé, a talking drum confiscated in 1916 by French administrators, landed at 8.45am on Friday at the airport

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