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  • French couple who sold an African mask to a second-hand goods dealer for €150 (£130) have gone to court for a share of the proceeds after the mask fetched €4.2m (£3.7m) at auction.

French couple who sold an African mask to a second-hand goods dealer for €150 (£130) have gone to court for a share of the proceeds after the mask fetched €4.2m (£3.7m) at auction.

Campaigners insist that the rare artefact should be returned to Gabon, in a case that has raised questions over Africa’s cultural heritage plundered by colonial France. The unnamed retired couple,…