Britain has returned as a loan looted artifacts from Ghana more than 100 years ago.
Two major UK national museums are returning artefacts looted from Ghana on loan.
An agreement was signed between the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum to return 32 gold artefacts on loan to Ghana.
Most of these artefacts were transported from Ghana to Britain over 150 years ago.
17 artefacts from the Victoria and Albert Museum and 15 from the British Museum will be transferred to Ghana under a 3-year loan programme.
However, the agreement also includes an option to increase the duration of the antiquities loan program.
These artifacts were looted during the wars between Great Britain and Ghana in the 19th century.
These artifacts include gold ornaments, swords and other items.
A joint statement issued by the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum acknowledged that the seizure of artefacts of cultural, historical and spiritual significance to the people of Ghana marked a chapter in the history of British imperialism in West Africa. .
In Ghana, these artifacts will be kept at the Manhyia Palace Museum.
Britain's national museums are not allowed to return artefacts from other countries forever.
Under British law, museums cannot permanently return looted artefacts.
That is why these antiquities have been returned to Ghana as a loan, but their ownership will remain in the name of Great Britain.
Some quarters believe that if the law is repealed, it will be a direct threat to British museums as they will have to lose some of their most valuable artefacts.