African tribe mourns Quaker archaeologist
African tribe mourns the death of their honorary chief
A West African tribe is mourning the death of a Cambridge professor and Quaker who was their honorary chief. Thurstan Shaw was a world expert on the archaeology of West Africa, whose research into the Igbo people of Nigeria led to them making him their Onu n’ekwulu ora – the voice that speaks for the people – in 1972.
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