Barnaby Phillips was born in London, brought up in Kenya and Switzerland, and worked for 27 years for the BBC and Al Jazeera English, mostly in Africa. He was based in Mozambique, Angola, Nigeria, South Africa and Greece. He now writes, teaches and works for an elephant conservation organisation. His first book, Another Man’s War (Oneworld 2014) told the story of the African soldiers who fought in Burma in the Second World War. His next book, Loot, Britain and the Benin Bronzes, (Oneworld 2021) looked at colonial loot, museums and restitutions, and was a Prospect and Art Newspaper Book of the Year.  He examines these themes again in his new book, The African Kingdom of Gold – Britain and the Asante Treasure.
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