{"id":12512,"date":"2024-01-25T14:29:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T14:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=12512"},"modified":"2024-01-25T14:29:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T14:29:49","slug":"uk-to-loan-back-ghanas-looted-crown-jewels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/25\/uk-to-loan-back-ghanas-looted-crown-jewels\/","title":{"rendered":"UK to Loan Back Ghana\u2019s Looted \u2018Crown Jewels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Sumaya Sayed\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UK is set to return some of Ghana&#8217;s significant cultural artefacts, including a gold peace pipe, that were looted from the Asante king&#8217;s court 150 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Victoria &amp; Albert Museum (V&amp;A) is contributing 17 pieces, while the British Museum is lending 15 items, including a sword of state and gold badges.<\/p>\n<p>The artefacts, taken during 19th-Century conflicts, hold great spiritual and cultural importance to Ghana, akin to the Benin Bronzes. The three-year loan agreements, extendable to six years, are with the Asantehene, the current Asante king and the items will be displayed at the Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p>While some UK museums face legal restrictions preventing permanent returns, these loans are seen as a compromise, allowing objects to be temporarily repatriated. Tristram Hunt, V&amp;A&#8217;s director, stressed that this cultural partnership is not restitution but a means of fostering collaboration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Sumaya Sayed\u00a0 The UK is set to return some of Ghana&#8217;s significant cultural artefacts, including a gold peace pipe, that were looted from the Asante king&#8217;s court 150 years ago. The Victoria &amp; Albert Museum (V&amp;A) is contributing 17 pieces, while the British Museum is lending 15 items, including a sword of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12514,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512\/revisions\/12514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}