Cultural Restitution
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Republic of Ghana
Updated November 2025
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Ghana, together with other restitution news.
Entries are updated regularly
November 2025
Ghana's Asante King has welcomed the return of 130 gold and bronze artefacts, twenty-five donated by a British art historian, the balance from the South African mining company AngloGold Ashanti
May 2024
Asante items loaned by the British Museum and the V&A Museum are placed on display in Kumasi, the capital of the Asante region in Ghana
May 2023
An article insists Asante/Ghana should reject any proposal by the British Museum to loan Asante treasures on the basis a loan is "simply anachronistic" in our times
May 2023
The ruler of Ghana's Asante people, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, met with the director of the British Museum to ask for the return of gold items in the Museum's collection
October 2020
Ghana appoints a 13-person committee to advise on cultural initiatives and to research Ghanaian objects held in international collections
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