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After 150 years, 39 artefacts that form part of Asante’s royal regalia are due to return to the ruler of the Asante people in Ghana. A major cultural restitution project. Interview.

Asanteman yesterday converged on the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi for a grand durbar of chiefs to welcome back home some of the Asante artefacts that...

""We are here ... (because) the white man came into Asanteman to loot and destroy it,"

In a landmark gesture marking Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu IIs silver jubilee, a California museum on Thursday, February 8, returned seven royal artefacts to the Ashanti king. | Pulse Ghana

Seven royal artifacts looted 150 years ago by British colonial forces from Ghana’s ancient Asante kingdom and kept by a United States museum have been returned and presented to the kingdom on Thursday, the latest of a series of stolen treasured items being repatriated to several African countries.

Seven royal artifacts looted 150 years ago by British colonial forces from Ghana’s ancient Asante kingdom and kept by a United States museum have been returned and presented to the kingdom on Thursday, the latest of a series of stolen treasured items being repatriated to several African countries.

A U.S. museum has returned a batch of royal regalia to Ghana that was looted by British colonial soldiers 150 years ago, marking the first major return of stolen artefacts to the West African nation. The Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) said the items, all royal objects from the Asante kingdom, were purchased by an American collector and donated to the museum after his death. Representatives of the museum handed them over to the Asante king, Otumfuo Osei Tutu I...

A U.S. museum has returned a batch of royal regalia to Ghana that was looted by British colonial soldiers 150 years ago, marking the first major return of stolen artefacts to the West African nation. The Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) said the items, all royal objects from the Asante kingdom, were purchased by an American collector and donated to the museum after his death. Representatives of the museum handed them over to the Asante king, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II,

Seven royal artifacts looted 150 years ago by British colonial forces from Ghana’s ancient Asante kingdom have been returned to the kingdom. The items were on Thursday presented to the

The artifacts were looted from Ghana in the 19th century before being transferred to Fowler Museum at UCLA back in the 1960s.