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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.

Will Provenance Research Delay Restitution Of Looted African Artefacts?

Mar 14, 2021 | Feature Article

ldquo;The restitution of those cultural objects which our museums and collections, directly or indirectly, posse ...

Feb 8, 2021 | Feature Article

lsquo;And the museums of which M. Caillois is so proud, not for one minute does it cross his mind that, all thin ...

Jan 13, 2021 | Feature Article

lsquo;I cannot accept that a large part of cultural heritage from several African countries is in France. There ...

Dec 31, 2020 | Feature Article

I was moved to silent melancholy at the thought that this assembly of degenerate and feeble-minded posterity sho ...

Dec 18, 2020 | Feature Article

ldquo;The restitution of those cultural objects which our museums and collections, directly or indirectly, posse ...

Dec 2, 2020 | Feature Article

lsquo;By the end of the 1960s, the price of Benin works had soared so high that the Federal Government of Nigeri ...

Nov 16, 2020 | Feature Article

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

Sep 4, 2020 | Feature Article

ldquo;The restitution of those cultural objects which our museums and collections, directly or indirectly, po ...

Jul 30, 2020 | Feature Article

The French government examined on 15 July, a draft law(projet de loi) which would authorize the government to ...

Jul 1, 2020 | Feature Article

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

Jul 1, 2020 | Feature Article

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

Jun 15, 2020 | Feature Article

ldquo;The trustees of the British Museum have become the world rsquo;s largest receivers of stolen property, and ...

Apr 27, 2020 | Feature Article

lsquo;We, Europeans, who have received and transmitted and continue to transmit these objects, are on the side o ...

Apr 5, 2020 | Feature Article

lsquo; To fall under the spell of an object,to be touched by it,moved emotionally by a piece of art in a museum, ...

Mar 23, 2020 | Feature Article

Although this case is a private matter and must remain so, it has become political and it is only in this regard ...

Mar 7, 2020 | Feature Article

There are probably very few crimes that shock, anger and pain most Africans more than the looting of human remains o ...

Feb 28, 2020 | Feature Article

lsquo;The truth is that there is an unstoppable process of return on course. Would the day come when African or Asi ...

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