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Tag: Artifacts

🇬🇭 Ghana’s Asante king welcomes return of artefacts from the UK and South Africa

Ghana’s Asante king has welcomed the return of 130 gold and bronze artefacts from the UK and South Africa some of which were looted during colonial times and others bought on the open market. The items included royal regalia, drums and ceremonial gold weights, dating back to the 1870s – and reveal the cultural role…
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November 12, 2025
🇪🇬 In the Egyptian capital Cairo the Grand Egyptian Museum (Giza Museum), which was under construction for 20 years, has opened.

Heads of African states attended the opening ceremony, including Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Félix Tshisekedi, prime ministers, and members of royal families from the Persian Gulf countries. 💬 “We all dreamed of this project and of making it a reality,” said Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa…
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November 3, 2025
Africans don’t require authorization from former colonial powers to reclaim their appropriated artifacts, the Togolese foreign minister says

African peoples and the Afro-descendant diaspora do not have to ask permission from former colonizers to “talk about memory”, declared Robert Dussey during a pre-congress in preparation for the 9th Pan-African Congress in Lome. This event will be an opportunity to “take concrete actions” to give meaning to the Pan-Africanist struggle, affirmed the minister without…
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August 31, 2024