Yearly Archives: 2024

The Asante Kingdom has taken delivery of 28 gold artefacts from multinational firm AngloGold Ashanti bringing the total number of restituted Asante artefacts from the British loot in the 1900s to 67. The objects were officially handed over to the Asante Kingdom during a Durbar…

The field outside the royal palace in the Ghanaian city of Kumasi was filled with an exuberant crowd, celebrating the return 100 years ago of an exiled king. Prempeh was the Asante king, or "Asantehene", of the late 19th Century who resisted British demands that…

Kwame Anthony Appiah I think I know why I was asked to speak today. It’s because my sisters and I are the fruits of a long-term successful Anglo-Asante collaboration, namely the marriage between my English mother and my Asante father. But the family connections run…

Book Review by Ama de-Graft Aikins* A History of Manhyia Palace Museum: Inaugural and Other Objects by Ivor Agyeman-Duahtackles Asante art history, and how this intersects with the making, decline and remaking of the Asante empire itself, with glimpses of the psychology of Asante kings…

Looted Asante artefacts returned on loan from the British Musuem and the Victoria and Albert Museum on display at the Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, Ghana on May 12, 2024.GETTY IMAGES Repatriation ceremonies tend to be bureaucratic affairs done for show—the deal to return a looted artwork…

The Golden Stool of the Asante Kingdom has for the first time in a long while been outdoored for the world and the young generation to have an experience of it. The glorious and breathtaking embodiment of the soul of the people of the Asante…

Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A, shakes hands with Otumfuo Osei Tutu II Artefacts looted by the British in the colonial era have been returned to Ghana and are already on public view. So why is it taking Nigeria so long to put its returned treasures…

Historic Asante gold court regalia acquired by the V&A in 1874 from items looted by British troops during the Anglo-Asante Wars has gone on show in Ghana for the first time in 150 years, through a significant cultural partnership between Manhyia Palace Museum, the V&A and the…

About one thousand framed pictures chronicling the unprecedented and illustrious reign of Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II have been displayed in a tabernacle mounted at the Afia Kobi Park inside the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi. The Photo Exhibition was inaugurated by the King on May…

The King of the Asante Kingdom, His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has urged natives of Asanteman and the world to visit the Manhyia Palace Museum to behold and experience the elegance and magnificence of Asante traditional artisanship. The elegance is evident in the recently…