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Labour's Bell Ribeiro-Addy
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BELL RIBEIRO-ADDY is the Labour Party member for Streatham in south London and also chair of Westminster’s all-party parliamentary group (APPG) for Afrikan Reparations.
Ribeiro-Addy is joined in the group by fellow Labour members Apsana Begum, Dawn Butler, Marsha De Cordova and Clive Lewis, Kate Osamor, Nadia Whittome, plus Sir Peter Bottomley from the Tories, Caroline Lucas from the Greens, Anne McLaughlin from the Scottish National Party and independents Diane Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn and Claudia Webbe.
The APPG is following in the footsteps of the late legendary former MP for Tottenham, Bernie Grant, in not just fighting for reparations but for the return of arts and cultural artefacts, such as the bronzes looted by British colonialists from the Kingdom of Benin.
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