2024-05-22
Bernard Akoi-Jackson: performance for Homecoming – Exhibition of Asante Gold Regalia' at Manhiya Palace Museum, Kumasi

Our fellow Bernard Akoi-Jackson performed for the occasion of the opening 'Homecoming – Exhibition of Asante Gold Regalia' at Manhiya Palace Museum, Kumasi.

Historic Asante gold court regalia acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1874 from items looted by British troops during the Anglo-Asante Wars has gone on show in Ghana for the first time in 150 years, through a significant cultural partnership between Manhyia Palace Museum, the V&A and the British Museum. The exhibition, Homecoming, in the newly refurbished Manhyia Palace Museum in the Asante capital, Kumasi, was opened on 1 May by Asantehene (Asante King), Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, and includes 17 items from the V&A, 15 from the British Museum and 7 formerly in the Fowler Museum, California.

Photo by Francis Kokoroko.

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