AN African warrior, stuffed, preserved and on show in Spain for 100 years, is going home for burial after a Haitian doctor complained to the United Nations at the undignified treatment of his remains. Thus ends a dispute which rose to the level of an international diplomatic incident with several African states challenging the right of a museum to possess the remains. Under an accord on Friday the town council of Banyoles in the Spanish province of Catalonia will hand over one of the town’s chief tourist attractions, the bushman warrior at the local natural history museum. The customary calm of the museum was shattered in 1992 when Alphonse Arcelin, a Haitian doctor resident in Spain, lodged a complaint with the UN. There then followed bitter rowing between those in the community in favour of repatriating the exhibit and those who wanted to keep him. To calm things, the museum withdrew the warrior from exhibition in 1997 and kept him in a depot pending a decision. Last February the town council agreed that he should return to Botswana for burial. The Spanish government will organise and finance the repatriation and funeral arrangements at a date to be fixed.