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AUTHOR: KWAME OPOKU, DR.

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

Even English Institutions Are Discussing Restitution: Effects Of Sarr-Savoy Report?

Jan 22, 2020 | Feature Article

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

Jan 9, 2020 | Feature Article

St eacute;phane Martin, President of Mus eacute;e du quai Branly who, after twenty-one years as President of the mus ...

Jan 1, 2020 | Feature Article

It has been reported that Zahi Hawass, the famous Egyptian Egyptologist has announced his intention, with support of ...

Dec 22, 2019 | Feature Article

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

Dec 10, 2019 | Feature Article

rsquo;Truth must be repeated constantly because error is being repeatedly preached round about all the time, and ...

Nov 21, 2019 | Feature Article

The British Museum takes its commitment to being a world museum seriously. Statement by a British Museum spo ...

Oct 15, 2019 | Feature Article

Readers may recall that we have often called on European museums to reveal the number of looted African artefacts th ...

Sep 25, 2019 | Feature Article

When we were schoolchildren, we wondered how Europeans were able to establish slave trade which benefitted them main ...

Sep 16, 2019 | Feature Article

We reproduce below a press release from a Berlin based NGO alliance on the proposals of the Prussian Cultural Heritage F ...

Jul 28, 2019 | Feature Article

ldquo;It is especially difficult to procure an object without at least employing some force. I believe that half ...

Jul 28, 2019 | Feature Article

ldquo;It is especially difficult to procure an object without at least employing some force. I believe that half ...

Jul 12, 2019 | Feature Article

After the very intensive discussions of French restitution policy, largely prompted by the Sarr-Savoy report , and b ...

Jul 6, 2019 | Feature Article

Most readers know by now that the defenders of the looting of African cultural artefacts are very active and surpris ...

Jul 2, 2019 | Feature Article

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

Jun 15, 2019 | Feature Article

lsquo;It is indeed unfortunate that so much Nok material has been looted over time to supply the international m ...

Jun 2, 2019 | Feature Article

lsquo;From this scene I strolled away to the northern gate, to where the dead body of the late Master of ...

May 30, 2019 | Feature Article

Germany is returning to Namibia a navigation landmark, a stone cross, padr atilde;o, which the Portuguese sea ...

Kwame Opoku, Dr.
Kwame Opoku, Dr.

Former Legal Adviser, United Nations Office, Vienna.. More Dr. Kwame Opoku writes about looted cultural objectsThe Author has 308 publications on modernghana.com