Ghana’s Asante King Displays Return Of Looted Treasures

Visitors view artefacts returned by the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum on a three-year loan at the Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, Ghana, on May 1, 2024. The British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum earlier this year agreed to give back 32 gold and silver treasures pillaged by British military forces from Asante leader Asantehene’s court during the 19th-century Anglo-Asante Wars.

“ not all have been returned, what we have here still embodies the soul of the Asantes,” the king said of the items looted in 1874.Visitors view artefacts returned by the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum on a three-year loan at the Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, Ghana, on May 1, 2024.

“These treasures have been witnesses to the triumphs and trials of a great kingdom, and their return to Kumasi is a testament to the power of cultural exchange and reconciliation,” he said. The accord “provides the basis for enhanced cultural cooperation between the Manhyia Palace Museum and the British Museum, and this loan is its first tangible outcome,” Gosden said.

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