Asante artefacts ‘stolen’ during the Sagrenti War arrive in Ghana

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Cole Lance 1 year ago

Nice one there!

Nice one there!
Coolyhai 1 year ago

3D printed and synthetically aged versions of the originals!

3D printed and synthetically aged versions of the originals!
Limping horse John MAHAMA lack policies. 1 year ago

@coolyhai,the negotiators are clever and smart and not as dumb and gullible like you. The can tell fakes from originals. Grow up lowlife.

@coolyhai,the negotiators are clever and smart and not as dumb and gullible like you. The can tell fakes from originals. Grow up lowlife.
TY 1 year ago

It’s called looting not stealing when you win a way you take items belonging to the opponent even the Ashanti’s did same

It’s called looting not stealing when you win a way you take items belonging to the opponent even the Ashanti’s did same
TAKE OR PAY DEMON 1 year ago

Why is Mahama refusing to comment on the strike action taking place on the various university campuses across the country which is negatively affecting the youth and the manpower base of this country. Is Mahama afraid that if ...
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Why is Mahama refusing to comment on the strike action taking place on the various university campuses across the country which is negatively affecting the youth and the manpower base of this country. Is Mahama afraid that if he comments, his past deeds leading into this crisis will be exposed. Ghanaians should now be aware that Mahama is not a sincere politician who will be bold enough to accept his fault. Such a person should never be allowed near the presidency. He only picks and chooses what suits him.
Sir-Riscky 1 year ago

I thought we all promised to behave normal in 2024?

I thought we all promised to behave normal in 2024?
Ebefa 1 year ago

After the vaccine behaving normal is no more part of us

After the vaccine behaving normal is no more part of us
Lazy man 1 year ago

Mo ne y), Nana. Otumfour wo nkwa so.

Mo ne y), Nana. Otumfour wo nkwa so.
Okonorie 1 year ago

The only good Nigerian is a dead one!

The only good Nigerian is a dead one!
George Okyere 1 year ago

How sure are we that it's the same thing looted away by the white man? This people can easily recreate these artifacts keep the original one and push to us the imitated versions.Take a second look pls.

How sure are we that it's the same thing looted away by the white man? This people can easily recreate these artifacts keep the original one and push to us the imitated versions.Take a second look pls.

Darren Jason. 1 year ago

Interesting indeed, our forefathers who created the such beautiful artefacts with gold in olden days, we in the morden society with many equipment to detect gold can not find out that they're original. Some Ghanaians should w ...
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Interesting indeed, our forefathers who created the such beautiful artefacts with gold in olden days, we in the morden society with many equipment to detect gold can not find out that they're original. Some Ghanaians should wise up.
Ebony 1 year ago

Yea your right iv worked in a British Mesium and they are very good in cloning pictures and hiding original

Yea your right iv worked in a British Mesium and they are very good in cloning pictures and hiding original
Joe Wise 1 year ago

Google the meaning of loot and come back again.

Google the meaning of loot and come back again.
Bastie asantefourhene 1 year ago

Replica . The white man is never a fool. Thats why it’s “loaned “ hehehe

Replica . The white man is never a fool. Thats why it’s “loaned “ hehehe
Asamoah Kokote 1 year ago

Then how come the Dormaahene is claiming that he is more powerful than the Asantehene??

Then how come the Dormaahene is claiming that he is more powerful than the Asantehene??
Onipaba 1 year ago

Don’t pay any attention to that woman living in a man’s body

Don’t pay any attention to that woman living in a man’s body
Bastie asantefourhene 1 year ago

Beacuse The Dormaahene uses as footstool, the heads of various Asante Amanhenes including that of Asantehene OBIRI YEBOAH. The first Asantehene was Obiri Yeboah and Not Osei Tutu I. The Dormaas killed him

Beacuse The Dormaahene uses as footstool, the heads of various Asante Amanhenes including that of Asantehene OBIRI YEBOAH. The first Asantehene was Obiri Yeboah and Not Osei Tutu I. The Dormaas killed him
Sir-Riscky 1 year ago

True true. A history that Ashantis hate to hear. At least we all know Obiri Yeboah was the Uncle of the so-called Osei Tutu and the so-called Asanteman moved from various era with varying names and that doesn't change one's r ...
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True true. A history that Ashantis hate to hear. At least we all know Obiri Yeboah was the Uncle of the so-called Osei Tutu and the so-called Asanteman moved from various era with varying names and that doesn't change one's ruler. If we believe Ghana was enslaved for years even though there wasn't any country like Ghana, then same analogy should be applied here. Whether Kumasihene or Kumawuhene oo, we know the man was your ruler and was slain like a pig
Asissi 1 year ago

You’re dangerously misinforming yourself and the ignorant folks who read your comment without good analytical mind . Obiri Yeboah was never Asantehene . Asante was founded by Osei Tutu Nyame Kesse and Great

You’re dangerously misinforming yourself and the ignorant folks who read your comment without good analytical mind . Obiri Yeboah was never Asantehene . Asante was founded by Osei Tutu Nyame Kesse and Great
Nana Kofi 1 year ago

You're here in 2024 to lie again. Who told u Obiri Yeboah is the first Asantehene? Stop this it won't take u anywhere

You're here in 2024 to lie again. Who told u Obiri Yeboah is the first Asantehene? Stop this it won't take u anywhere

Bastie asantefourhene 1 year ago

OBIRI YEBOAH WAS referred to as ODI AHENKAN.

Kwame an chiefs were 1. Twum 2. Antwi 3. Krobea Amanfi, 4. Oti Akenken. The confederacy was started by
5. ODI AHENKAN OBIRI YEBOAH the uncle of Osei Tutu I.
All the previous ...
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OBIRI YEBOAH WAS referred to as ODI AHENKAN.

Kwame an chiefs were 1. Twum 2. Antwi 3. Krobea Amanfi, 4. Oti Akenken. The confederacy was started by
5. ODI AHENKAN OBIRI YEBOAH the uncle of Osei Tutu I.
All the previous 4 were all Adikro chiefs of Kwaeman they were smaller in status. Obiri boahen laid the foundation of Asante confederacy and the Dormaa’s killed him
Sunday Kehinde 1 year ago

Bastie, the Dormaa dog who needlessly insult Nigerians, you're a jealous, filthy liar. Even I a Nigerian, who came to Ghana with my parents at the age of 8, knows that Ashanti is a derivative name of the union whose sole pu ...
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Bastie, the Dormaa dog who needlessly insult Nigerians, you're a jealous, filthy liar. Even I a Nigerian, who came to Ghana with my parents at the age of 8, knows that Ashanti is a derivative name of the union whose sole purpose was to fight a common enemy.
I believe just as you're envious of a thriving Nigerian community in Ghana, you're also envious of Ashantis who are superior to you. We Nigerians have excelled in academia, sports, business and music and you can't compare Ghana to us in these areas. I respect Ghana, since I grew up there and I see it as home, but we must always tell the truth.
Aba Eninful 1 year ago

Wow, Kehinde. Please I am sorry that you and other members of your community are been disparaged by that fool for no apparent reason. As there are admittedly bad Nigerians, there are also very good ones, as it pertains among ...
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Wow, Kehinde. Please I am sorry that you and other members of your community are been disparaged by that fool for no apparent reason. As there are admittedly bad Nigerians, there are also very good ones, as it pertains among any other group of people. That Bastie does not represent all Ghanaians.
Bastie asantefourhene 1 year ago

Sunday the Anago Zoogerian scammer. How many people have you kidnapped so far this year? Alata ni nso di3 , nka Ghana nsem fa wo ho b3n?

You’re one of the products of the olosho Ashawo business zoogerians came to do in ...
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Sunday the Anago Zoogerian scammer. How many people have you kidnapped so far this year? Alata ni nso di3 , nka Ghana nsem fa wo ho b3n?

You’re one of the products of the olosho Ashawo business zoogerians came to do in Ghana.
K-Jay 1 year ago

And after killing the Amanhene of Asante he still went running and wandering all the way to get far east unto Wampamu? Lol... When a historical narrative becomes a tag of war between involved parties making it unclear, logic ...
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And after killing the Amanhene of Asante he still went running and wandering all the way to get far east unto Wampamu? Lol... When a historical narrative becomes a tag of war between involved parties making it unclear, logic is applied. In that era no one ruler led a war and kills another ruler of a people without taking over their lands and jurisdiction. So we need an explanation as to how that phenomenon failed to occur here and why the victor went running as it seems with his tail in between his legs?
BOY KOFI 1 year ago

The British didn't steal anything from the Asantes in 1874 during the Sagrenti war.
The Asantehene Nana Kofi Karikari triggered the war out of anger concerning the British ownership of the Elmina Castle in 1872.
Nana Kofi K ...
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The British didn't steal anything from the Asantes in 1874 during the Sagrenti war.
The Asantehene Nana Kofi Karikari triggered the war out of anger concerning the British ownership of the Elmina Castle in 1872.
Nana Kofi Karikari sent a delegation to Holland and England to try and stop the exchange of properties between Queen Victoria and King Willem 3rd but couldn't succeed.He had no other option than to attack the Elmina Castle with the help of Elmina Chief Nana Kobina Gyan in 1873.
The Sagrenti War started in December 1873 by January 1874 the British Army have arrived in Kumasi.
Asantehene Nana Kofi Karikari was not found in his palace.He didn't want to be arrested so after 24 hours the British collected all the valuable items and burnt down the palace.
You cannot say that the British stole Asante artefacts because that's what happen when you lose a military battle.They ransack and destroy whatever they want unless there's peaceful capitulation.
I sincerely wish that whatever belongs to the Asantes returns to them but we must choose our words carefully.Tnx.
Tokugawah 1 year ago

Absolutely right, Boy Kofi. You know the history.Sir Garnet Wolseley, hence the Sagrenti War, who led the British forces of mainly Sierra Leoneans and locals took 3 months to win the war, he sacked and burnt down Kumasi. He w ...
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Absolutely right, Boy Kofi. You know the history.Sir Garnet Wolseley, hence the Sagrenti War, who led the British forces of mainly Sierra Leoneans and locals took 3 months to win the war, he sacked and burnt down Kumasi. He was a conqueror and right or wrong conquerors do as they please,sometimes called spoils of war. Our inability to accept that we were a conquered people and the British, like all conquerors from the year dot, did as they please. The Asantes, when they had a kingdom, did the same, they attack and conquer small weaker people and take their treasures including able bodied men and women who are sold to the whitemen for obsolete guns. The Treaty of Fomena stripped the Asantes of control over neighbouring territories and Kofi Karikari, the Asante King who escaped was later destooled. The Asantes were required to pay 50,000 ounces of gold as reparations. There is currently no Asante kingdom because they ceased to have a kingdom in September, 1874. There is no King of Asante because Kumasi is not an independent sovereign state. Unfortunately we love the idea of royality so we call the Chief of Kumasi, Asantehene, King of the Asante Kingdom etc. all a load of bull shit.
Esi Kakraba Mamford 1 year ago

As a neutral, non Ashanti, I will say your choice of words, Togugawah, is borne out of pain and envy. Other groups in Benin, Nigeria, Ethiopia inter alia, have also accused Some Western counties of stealing their artifact ...
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As a neutral, non Ashanti, I will say your choice of words, Togugawah, is borne out of pain and envy. Other groups in Benin, Nigeria, Ethiopia inter alia, have also accused Some Western counties of stealing their artifacts and demanded for their return and I don't believe you're opposed to the verbiage of the demand.
Schrodinger's Equation and Solid State Physics... 1 year ago

The Ashantes attacked and bullied other kingdoms and looted valuables of those kingdoms including slaves, gold, lands, etc. By the words of their so-called king, have they returned the "stollen" artefacts, lands and slaves of ...
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The Ashantes attacked and bullied other kingdoms and looted valuables of those kingdoms including slaves, gold, lands, etc. By the words of their so-called king, have they returned the "stollen" artefacts, lands and slaves of those kingdoms? Maybe those kingdoms need to organise another homecoming after Akufo addo's, and we shall see if their sitting asantehene will be heading down south( they bullied the Fantes and the Akwamus a lot, except the only untouchables of Ga) or up north including Baukina. Even your asantehene may not be a native just as your borrowed Ayigbe komfo anokye. You see, these people are highly disoriented, loud and empty and creating all manner of noise in otherwise peaceful Ghana. The whites are not fool. Probe your king, for he may have worked out something corrupt with the queen. Note and note well. Nota Bene! NB: The whites have never been foolish in their entire history. They know the costs and benefits, rights and penalties of war long before your kingdom was founded and will not be cheated by you mpu-eating folks, no! Never by these dirty midgets of the forests thickets!!
Sam Fante warrior. 1 year ago

This is the beginning, i tell you Babylon the great is doom.

This is the beginning, i tell you Babylon the great is doom.

Kofi Ghanaba 1 year ago

The barbarian British brutish marauding white supremacists came to plunder and conquer the people of Ghana.They fought the Segrenti war and plundered and stole the Asante royal artefacts which bore spiritual significance.Amer ...
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The barbarian British brutish marauding white supremacists came to plunder and conquer the people of Ghana.They fought the Segrenti war and plundered and stole the Asante royal artefacts which bore spiritual significance.America has returned our treasures but the Brutish British are not bringing all.Even what they are bringing will go back after 5 years.Shame.
Boss 1 year ago

God bless Ashantis

God bless Ashantis
Sam Fante warrior. 1 year ago

God blessed every tribe in Ghana and Africa, this homosexuals didn't stolen from only Ashantis in Ghana and Africa, think about what Portuguese, Swedish, Danish and Dutch stole from the people of the Gold Coast before British ...
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God blessed every tribe in Ghana and Africa, this homosexuals didn't stolen from only Ashantis in Ghana and Africa, think about what Portuguese, Swedish, Danish and Dutch stole from the people of the Gold Coast before British came and found Ashantis in typical forest and rob them too. The doom of Babylon the great in near and they'll return everything that they stole from Africa including our children. God blessed Jacob.
Kwama 1 year ago

Say when the British defeated Ashanti’s

Say when the British defeated Ashanti’s
Siabonga ny 1 year ago

Hahah Asante can personally develop Ashanti region for all this gold and royalties but greediness wouldn’t allow him to,wicked African leaders

Hahah Asante can personally develop Ashanti region for all this gold and royalties but greediness wouldn’t allow him to,wicked African leaders
Torgbey Wenyo 1 1 year ago

It should never be return we will should keep it is for Africans. Thief's can't loan us our own stolen property

It should never be return we will should keep it is for Africans. Thief's can't loan us our own stolen property
Obrempong 1 year ago

Are the returned butties original ones ? Are they made of original
Ghana gold ? Oh Asantenana,
Check them well before you jubilate.

Are the returned butties original ones ? Are they made of original
Ghana gold ? Oh Asantenana,
Check them well before you jubilate.
Kweku Edu 1 year ago

What is the purpose of the artifacts. Can you sell the items to Ghanians so that Ashantis can develop their kingdom?

What is the purpose of the artifacts. Can you sell the items to Ghanians so that Ashantis can develop their kingdom?
Tymer 1 year ago

Stolen? Absolute rubbish. Are asantes also going to return what they looted from the small tribes they bullied using mercenaries from the north? Are they also going to pay reparations for the slaves they captured and sold to ...
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Stolen? Absolute rubbish. Are asantes also going to return what they looted from the small tribes they bullied using mercenaries from the north? Are they also going to pay reparations for the slaves they captured and sold to the Europeans? These artifacts were taken as spoils of war when the so called ashanti empire was battered and humiliated by the British and a brave coalition of smaller states who needed to destroy a slave raiding, despotic and backward empire
Schrodinger's Equation and Solid State Physics... 1 year ago

Well written, articulate and truthful perspective. These Ashantis are just loud noise making empty wind!

Well written, articulate and truthful perspective. These Ashantis are just loud noise making empty wind!
Paul Larbi 1 year ago

Tymer, your stupidity knows no bounds. Ask yourself prior to the formation of Ashanti circa 1701 was slavery not going on in Ghana? Why do you blame Ashantis as sole perpetrators of slavery?

Tymer, your stupidity knows no bounds. Ask yourself prior to the formation of Ashanti circa 1701 was slavery not going on in Ghana? Why do you blame Ashantis as sole perpetrators of slavery?
GPS 1 year ago

Africa is rich BUT the people are very poor. It is time for Africans to use their brains. Industrialization, science, technologies, and developments our leaders must focus. Americans, Europeans, Asians like Chinese are still ...
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Africa is rich BUT the people are very poor. It is time for Africans to use their brains. Industrialization, science, technologies, and developments our leaders must focus. Americans, Europeans, Asians like Chinese are still robbing Africans with their natural resources. Where are the brains of our leaders? Stop buying from China and manufacture by yourselves Africa leaders. Turn your natural resources to finished products by yourselves. Start building factories and produce for yourselves Africans
Nature Club 1 year ago

Are they the original...??

Are they the original...??
BB.ODURO USA. 1 year ago

Good news Good GOD will blessed him Otumfuo for all he done for Asanteman and Ghana.

Good news Good GOD will blessed him Otumfuo for all he done for Asanteman and Ghana.
Odeneho Ababio 1 year ago

Asante Artefacts Stolen arrive in Ghana and Assnte king wants stolen artefacts to be returned. Which one we should follow?

Asante Artefacts Stolen arrive in Ghana and Assnte king wants stolen artefacts to be returned. Which one we should follow?
Mama 1 year ago

We need all our gold king Charles

We need all our gold king Charles
Mama 1 year ago

Ghana people stop fighting of the dormaa n the asante we all from Ghana let fight for our assets from the whites

Ghana people stop fighting of the dormaa n the asante we all from Ghana let fight for our assets from the whites
Mama 1 year ago

Queen Elizabeth took all the gold from Ghana to uk but still from Ghana to uk is expensive to travel there
This what we need to fight for

Queen Elizabeth took all the gold from Ghana to uk but still from Ghana to uk is expensive to travel there
This what we need to fight for
Alonso 1 year ago

Yes this is the original...

Yes this is the original...
Tribal bigots 1 year ago

The UK is gangster to loan these items lol

The UK is gangster to loan these items lol
Agyemang Richmond 1 year ago

Yes , our King has done well.

Yes , our King has done well.
Joy 1 year ago

It was on leased to the people of asante kingdom.

It was on leased to the people of asante kingdom.
Richard Deok 1 year ago

How original is it again

How original is it again
Money 1 year ago

Why this time

Why this time
Asasi. Ba 1 year ago

First of all they were not stolen. Spoils of war are not stolen objects.

First of all they were not stolen. Spoils of war are not stolen objects.
ibrahimbansi@gmail.com 1 year ago

How do we know these were the things stolen? Any way, stolen artifacts found. What happens to the thieves?

How do we know these were the things stolen? Any way, stolen artifacts found. What happens to the thieves?
Ghana History 1 year ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/arts/design/fowler-museum-asante-kingdom-ghana.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/arts/design/fowler-museum-asante-kingdom-ghana.html
Mawulolo 1 year ago

Hmmmmmmm
Are they sure these are the original artefacts? I just cannot trust the western world. Let reduce the jubilation. 150 years down the line

Hmmmmmmm
Are they sure these are the original artefacts? I just cannot trust the western world. Let reduce the jubilation. 150 years down the line

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