KUMASI, GHANA—CNN reports that artifacts held in the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum will be repatriated to Ghana. Many of the gold and silver objects, which were crafted by Asante royal goldsmiths, were looted in the nineteenth century during the Anglo-Asante wars. Additional items were taken by the British as an indemnity payment extracted from the Asantehene, or Asante king, who controlled Ghana’s gold deposits. The objects will go on display at the Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, and include a small gold ornament shaped like a sankuo, or lute-harp, and an eagle-shaped ornament. To read about a Dutch settlement that was a hub of the transatlantic slave trade on the West African coast, go to "Letter from Ghana: Life Outside the Castle."
