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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

Repatriation

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Africa

Looting of African heritage: a powerful new book explores the damage done by colonial theft

      By Françoise Vergès, UCL     European colonisation of Africa was not only about armed conquest, massacres and the exploitation of resources. It was also about the appropriation of spiritual and political symbols. It led to the erasure of a social, cultural, symbolic world. A 2024 book, Fifteen Colonial Thefts: A Guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums, adds to the growing literature on the history of […]

todaySeptember 5, 2024 22

Africa

Ghana’s looted Asante gold comes home (for now) – Asante ruler’s advisor tells us about the deal

  By Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, Rutgers University After 150 years, 39 artefacts that form part of Asante’s royal regalia are due to return to the Asantehene (ruler of the Asante people) in Kumasi, Ghana, in February and April this year. The Asante empire was the largest and most powerful in the region in the 18th century and controlled an area that was rich in gold. Many of the gold […]

todayJanuary 31, 2024 6

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