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By Riham Alkousaa BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will return a goddess statue that was stolen from Cameroon 120 years ago, the Prussian Cultural Heritage ...
The move is part of a growing trend to return artefacts taken during the colonial era. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will return a goddess statue that was stolen from Cameroon 120 years ago, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation said on Monday, part of a growing trend to give back artefacts taken during the colonial era.
Germany announces return of ethnological objects to Cameroon and Namibia, as well as negotiations over the restitution of works to Tanzania.
The Ethnological Museum in Berlin is home to a statue called Ngonnso, taken from her home by German colonialists at the beginning of the 20th century. A tribe in Cameroon has been demanding her return for decades. And now, they may finally be granted their wish.