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Columnist: KWAME OPOKU, DR.

Gold mask, 20 cm in height, weighing 1.36 kg. of pure gold, seized by the British from Kumase, Ghana, in 1874 and now in the Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom.

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ldquo;The town burnt furiously, all these three days of rain failing in any way to impede the progress of the devour ...

Dec 7, 2022 | Feature Article

39;The looting of Benin City and Maqdala were British war crimes then and now: it should be a matter of national sh ...

Nov 7, 2022 | Feature Article

lsquo;The return of a work of art or record to the country which created it enables a people to recover part of ...

Sep 17, 2022 | Feature Article

We publish below a press release from Postkolonial Berlin urging Germany to surrender all ownership rights to coloni ...

Sep 15, 2022 | Feature Article

It does not matter (although many museums pretend it does) that the first of several Hague conventions was not pr ...

Aug 24, 2022 | Feature Article

ldquo;The exhibition is showcasing some of the works that made Benin (Nigeria) famous. It once again, reminds th ...

Jul 1, 2022 | Feature Article

We reproduce below a press release issued by Berlin Post-kolonial on the occasion of the signing of a Joint Politica ...

Jun 6, 2022 | Feature Article

lsquo; hellip; our research methods resemble the interrogations of an investigating magistrate much more ...

Feb 28, 2022 | Feature Article

Below is a press release on a significant statement by President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria on the restitution of l ...

Jan 31, 2022 | Feature Article

You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our ...

Dec 24, 2021 | Feature Article

Truth must be repeated constantly because error is being repeatedly preached round about all the time, and not ju ...

Dec 7, 2021 | Feature Article

lsquo;One of the most noble incarnations of a people rsquo;s genius is its cultural heritage, built up over the ...

Sep 27, 2021 | Feature Article

We reproduce here below a press release from Postkolonial Berlin protesting against the opening of the Humboldt Foru ...

Sep 20, 2021 | Feature Article

As for the ownership status of the works, who does not know that Benin is the true owner despite the semantics an ...

Jul 8, 2021 | Feature Article

lsquo; lsquo;It would not have been right to have retained an item of such great cultural importance that was ac ...

Jun 11, 2021 | Feature Article

lsquo;Although the existing legal framework is not favourable to the original owners of the objects in colonial ...

About Author
Dr. Kwame Opoku writes about looted cultural objects