The jugs include the British Museum’s Asante Ewer, which was made in England but ended up in West Africa, before being looted by the British
The three ewers on display at York Army Museum, with the Asante one in the middle, the York one on…
In 2024, 17 items of Asante gold court regalia in the V&A’s collection went on show in Kumasi, the capital of Asante in Ghana, for the first time in over 150 years. The exhibition, Homecoming: Adversity and Commemoration, with the gold at its heart, was opened by Asante…
In 2024, the V&A commissioned a sculpture to be designed and made by the Asante royal goldsmith, Nana Poku Amponsah Dwumfour, in collaboration with the British Ghanaian artist-goldsmith, Emefa Cole. Unity celebrates a new relationship between the V&A and the Royal Palace in Kumasi, the capital of…
The first Awukudae Festival of the year 2025 on the Asanteman calendar has been observed.
The festival which coincided with New Year’s Day on January 1, 2025, was duly celebrated.
The Manhyia Palace was the place to be on the fateful day, drawing people…
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…