Ghana says British Museum must return stolen gold by S_Fleary1
A RULER of one of Ghana’s leading tribes has asked the British Museum to return stolen gold back to the west African country.
The items in question, include artefacts taken from the Asante palace in Kumasi during the war with the British in 1874.The British Museum has more than 200 Asante gold objects and other items in its collection which were taken by British troops. In recent years, the museum has come under increasing pressure to return looted artefacts back to their countries of origin., they had plans to “lend” their collection of looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria and failed to say if the items would be permanently returned to Africa.
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