Impassioned call for return of Bangwa Queen, King and other artefacts

Chief Charles Taku has made an impassioned call for the “urgent and unconditional restitution of the Bangwa Queen in Dapper Foundation in France, the Bangwa King in Metropolitan Museum in New York, USA and the cultural heritage artefacts which are in the National Ethnological Museum in Berlin and Municipal Museums in Germany, in the Netherlands and other parts of the world.”

A recent study shows that 40,000 objects from Cameroon, ranging from human remains to royal heritage such as crowns and thrones, are in German museums. Like Nso, Bele Bele, Tibati, Sawa, Bamileke, and Bali, invaluable heritages from Bangwa are among these 40,000.

Chief Taku: “I have noted with profound indignation that the resistance towards the restitution of African Heritage artefacts and the payment of reparations for colonial crimes is premised on the supposed legality of the crimes under the General Act of the Berlin Conference was signed on 26 February 1885 by nineteen European powers, Article VI titles “Provisions Concerning the Protection of Natives, Missionaries and Travellers, and Religious Freedoms.”

Chief Charles Taku is an international lawyer before international courts and tribunals, related to the Bangwa royal family.