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France returns 'talking drum' looted in 1916 in Ivory Coast

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France returned a sacred drum that was taken from the Ivory Coast during colonial rule at a ceremony in Abidjan on Friday, marking the first official restitution of a cultural artefact from France to the West African country.

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