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COLUMNIST: KWAME OPOKU, DR.

Asante trophy head looted by the British in the 1874 invasion of Kumase, Ghana, now in Wallace Collection, London.

Defiant And Provocative British Museum

Jun 13, 2025 | Feature Article

lsquo;Colonialism imposed its control of the social production of wealth through military conquest and subsequent po ...

May 29, 2025 | Feature Article

There is still such self-hatred that we evaluate the different options available to us by systematically choosing wh ...

May 5, 2025 | Feature Article

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will return to Robert Owen Lehman twenty- seven Benin artefacts while keeping five of t ...

Mar 19, 2025 | Feature Article

39;Europe would have done better to tolerate the non-European civilizations at its side, leaving them alive, dynami ...

Dec 2, 2024 | Feature Article

The heinous crimes and atrocious acts of German troops in their colonies in Africa are well-known, especially their geno ...

Nov 9, 2024 | Feature Article

rsquo;Europe would have done better to tolerate the non-European civilizations at its side, leaving them alive, dyna ...

Aug 28, 2024 | Feature Article

ldquo;The first room visited was one which during the day had been seen to be full of boxes, some of which, at all e ...

Jul 31, 2024 | Feature Article

As we stated in last year 39;s Restitution Day message, 39;On every Restitution Day,10 November, we shall take sto ...

Jul 22, 2024 | Feature Article

lsquo;The return of the Benin Bronzes is not just about the objects themselves, but about a broader movement towards ...

Jul 7, 2024 | Feature Article

ldquo;Humanity 39;s moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely... rdquo; - Cheikh Anta Diop, Civilizatio ...

May 26, 2024 | Feature Article

Europe would have done better to tolerate the non-European civilizations at its side, leaving them alive, dynamic, a ...

Apr 15, 2024 | Feature Article

lsquo;African art, like any great art, some would say, in any case, more than any other, and for a long time if n ...

Feb 28, 2024 | Feature Article

ldquo;Gold gleams throughout the Ashanti story: one wonders in retrospect whether the punitive expedition would have ...

Kwame Opoku, Dr.
Kwame Opoku, Dr.

Former Legal Adviser, United Nations Office, Vienna.. More Dr. Kwame Opoku writes about looted cultural objects

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