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- European state-owned institutions require new laws to be able to return their collections. This has been enacted in France and Germany but British institutions are still prevented from doing so by the British Museum Act of 1963 and the National Heritage Act of 1983. The UK government has said it has no plans to amend those laws to enable return.
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May 10, 2024 · More British museums are in talks to potentially return looted artefacts to an African king following a landmark loan deal, The Telegraph can reveal. The ruler of the Asante people in...
The new long-term deals for more than 30 gold and silver artefacts looted from the Asante – a West African people whose wealthy 18th-century empire became known for its fierce warriors and...
- Chapter One: Capture Begins
- Chapter Two: Slavers Turned Merchants
- Chapter Three: Stolen Skulls and Gold
- Chapter Four: Legislating Return
- Chapter Five: African Voices
Nowadays, the sleepy town of Chibok in northern Nigeria is notorious for the kidnapping of 276 children by Boko Haram. But go back 115 years and this tiny farming community perched atop a hill fought one of the greatest resistances to British colonisation. In November 1906, around 170 British soldiers launched what that country’s parliament called ...
Having been the largest enslaver nation – enslaving about 3.1 million African men, women and children during its participation in the trade – Britain enacted laws in 1807, with further acts in 1811 and 1833, that abolished the trade after frequent rebellions by enslaved people eventually prompted concerns from influential members of British society...
Throughout Britain’s anti-slavery missions, many prized African artefacts arrived in London to be sold onto European collectors and museums. At the time, scholars doubted “primitive” Africans could create such works. German archaeologist Leo Frobenius, who was accused of having stolen a sacred Yoruba Ife head in 1910, argued they were of Greek orig...
In the 1990s, the Washington Principles enacted guidelines around the return of Nazi-confiscated art. In 2002, the heirs of Dr Arthur Feldman sought the return of four old master drawings from the British Museum because they had been stolen by the Gestapo. The case went to court and the family lost on the grounds that British law forbids state muse...
The debate about who should be the custodians of African art has recently centralised in the Global North with academics and “experts” writing books on the Benin Bronzes to a plethora of rave reviews. It raises an uncomfortable truth that while they are vital to global discussions, Africans who are taking practical steps towards restitution have be...
- Benin Bronzes. British Museum. The Benin Bronzes, which are actually made of brass, are a collection of delicately made sculptures and plaques that adorned the royal palace of the Oba, Ovonramwen Nogbaisi, in the Kingdom of Benin, which was incorporated into British-ruled Nigeria.
- Man-eaters of Tsavo. Field Museum of Natural History. These were two infamous lions from the Tsavo region in Kenya, East Africa that killed and ate railway workers on the British Kenya-Uganda at the end of the 19th Century.
- Rosetta Stone. AFP. The 1.12m (3ft 6in) high Rosetta Stone in the British Museum is originally from Egypt and is a stele made out of granodiorite, which is a coarse-grained rock.
- Bangwa Queen. Dapper Foundation. The 32in (81cm) tall Bangwa Queen is a wooden carving from Cameroon, representing the power and health of the Bangwa people.
Apr 12, 2024 · The Museum insists that legal restrictions in the UK mean it cannot permanently return artefacts. The looted gold items will go on public display in Ghana next month for the first time in 150...
May 1, 2024 · BBC News, Kumasi. Looted artefacts from the Asante kingdom are finally on display in Ghana, 150 years after British colonisers took them. Ghanaians flocked to the Manhyia Palace Museum in...
Jan 26, 2024 · Insight. 26 Jan 2024. Return of Ghana's looted artefacts from UK on loan a ‘betrayal of ancestors' The British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum announced this week that a total of 32 items stolen from the court of the Asante king will be loaned back to Ghana. A cap embellished with gold is among the items that will be loaned back to Ghana.
