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Huyu ndiye Mfalme Badu Bonsu II wa Ghana aliyepambana na wakaoloni wa Kidachi na kupinga vikali biashara ya Utumwa hadi kufikia hatua ya kuwaua maafisa kadhaa wa Kikoloni hatua iliyopelekea ahukumiwe kifo kisha alinyongwa hadi kufa.
Wadachi hao walikata kichwa chake na kukipeleka nchini Uholanzi ambako kilipotea kwa miaka 100(Karne 1) lakini kilipatikana katika Kontena moja ndani ya Jumba la Makumbusho.
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Ghanaian King Badu Bonsu II's head was separated from his body and sent to the Netherlands and kept in a Museum for resisting slavery.
King of Ahanta Aboade of Ghana, Otumfuo Badu BonsuII was executed in 1838 by Dutch settlers who cut off his head which they kept in formalin.
According to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs,Nan Badu Bonsu II had killed two Dutch in 1938. He then"handed over by his own people to the Dutch colonialistswho controlled the territory of Ahanta on what was then theGold Coast of Ghana today. He was sentenced to death for treason and hanged. His head was severed from his body,preserved and made in the Netherlands."
Ghanaians called for the head since 2008, preserved in the collections of the Museum of Anatomy of Leiden.
On July 23, 2009, after 171 years, the royal head was given to Nana Kofi Estin, Chief Ahanta Aboade in The Hague in the Netherlands and repatriated to Ghana.
This is the multimillionaire tycoon Arthur Paes of Limburg, Ghanaian, himself king of the province Somey whowas responsible for the valuable transport by the Ghanaian authorities.
She was greeted by a delegation from the Ghanaian government and members of the royal clan at Kotoka airportwho recited prayers to invoke his return home: "The soul of our great ancestor and warrior can finally rest in peacebecause it is home now, "he told Agence France Presse(AFP), Nana Kofi Estin, Chief Ahanta Aboade, who led theGhanaian delegation to The Hague.
"The great son of Ghana is back home to his eternal rest," said Ghana's Minister of Culture and traditional authorities, Alexander Asum-Ahensah.
This is the Dutch writer Arthur Japin who discoveredthe story of the king during investigations made for the writing of his novel: Un blanc au coeur noir (A white withblack heart), Gallimard, Paris, 2000.
Wadachi hao walikata kichwa chake na kukipeleka nchini Uholanzi ambako kilipotea kwa miaka 100(Karne 1) lakini kilipatikana katika Kontena moja ndani ya Jumba la Makumbusho.
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Ghanaian King Badu Bonsu II's head was separated from his body and sent to the Netherlands and kept in a Museum for resisting slavery.
King of Ahanta Aboade of Ghana, Otumfuo Badu BonsuII was executed in 1838 by Dutch settlers who cut off his head which they kept in formalin.
According to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs,Nan Badu Bonsu II had killed two Dutch in 1938. He then"handed over by his own people to the Dutch colonialistswho controlled the territory of Ahanta on what was then theGold Coast of Ghana today. He was sentenced to death for treason and hanged. His head was severed from his body,preserved and made in the Netherlands."
Ghanaians called for the head since 2008, preserved in the collections of the Museum of Anatomy of Leiden.
On July 23, 2009, after 171 years, the royal head was given to Nana Kofi Estin, Chief Ahanta Aboade in The Hague in the Netherlands and repatriated to Ghana.
This is the multimillionaire tycoon Arthur Paes of Limburg, Ghanaian, himself king of the province Somey whowas responsible for the valuable transport by the Ghanaian authorities.
She was greeted by a delegation from the Ghanaian government and members of the royal clan at Kotoka airportwho recited prayers to invoke his return home: "The soul of our great ancestor and warrior can finally rest in peacebecause it is home now, "he told Agence France Presse(AFP), Nana Kofi Estin, Chief Ahanta Aboade, who led theGhanaian delegation to The Hague.
"The great son of Ghana is back home to his eternal rest," said Ghana's Minister of Culture and traditional authorities, Alexander Asum-Ahensah.
This is the Dutch writer Arthur Japin who discoveredthe story of the king during investigations made for the writing of his novel: Un blanc au coeur noir (A white withblack heart), Gallimard, Paris, 2000.
