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00:00 Seven royal artefacts looted 150 years ago by British colonial forces from Ghana's
00:07 ancient Ashanti kingdom and kept by a US museum were unthoroughly returned to the kingdom.
00:13 It is the latest of a series of stolen treasured items being repatriated to several African
00:18 countries.
00:19 We are here today to commemorate the deeds of the white man who came to the Ashanti man
00:26 to loot and destroy.
00:33 All seven items were being returned unconditionally and permanently though the kingdom allowed
00:39 their replicas to be made, the museum said.
00:44 Museums love to shine light on beauty.
00:47 At the Fowler Museum we will no longer have these wonderful pieces on display.
00:53 We are honoured by your offer to have replicas made for us so that we will however have the
00:59 opportunity to tell our visitors a better story.
01:04 They were looted from colonised Ghana in the 19th century before being transferred to Fowler
01:12 Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles in the 1960s.
01:20 I heard about our artefacts from our forefathers and our fathers.
01:25 They told us about the artefacts and they told us as a kid I had that vision that one
01:34 day we should have all these artefacts back into our Ashanti nation.
01:39 After decades of resistance from European and Western governments and museums, the effort
01:44 of African countries to repatriate stolen artefacts paying off with the increasing return
01:49 of treasured pieces.
01:51 Activists though save thousands more are still out of reach.
01:55 (speaking in foreign language)