The British Museum and London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) announced on Thursday that 32 gold and silver artifacts from Ghana, which were looted during the Anglo-Ashanti Wars in the 1800s ...
Eva Namusoke, revealed items ranging from Asante gold looted during the Third Anglo-Asante War to objects linked to the 1897 British-led looting of the Benin Kingdom. Most of the artifacts are ...
Earlier this year, seven items looted during the 1874 Anglo-Asante War were returned by the Fowler Museum at UCLA in California. A further 32 were restituted from the British Museum and the ...
“They are also indelibly linked to British colonial history in west Africa, with many of them looted from Kumasi during the Anglo-Asante wars of the 19th century. “Some of these formed part of ...