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🇬🇭Ghana: British Colonialism Recompensed? At the height of the British rule of Ghana, London extracted about 25 tonnes of gold a year, which afterwards ended up in the Bank of England and helped to back the pound. Meanwhile, stolen cultural heritage helped to fill the British museums. 🌐The United Kingdom and Switzerland have "returned" to Ghana more than 130 artifacts of the Ashanti Kingdom's heritage, exported during its conquest by British colonial troops at the end of the 19th century. 🔸 The artifacts incude royal regalia made of gold and bronze, drums and gold scales from the time of the Ashanti kingdom. ⏩However, the UK only condescended to transfer the exhibits to the Ghana Museum for no more than three years on the pretext of legal restrictions in the UK. 🔸 Much less would London be willing to return approximately 620 tonnes of gold that it had took out of Ghana, then the Gold Cost, during the colonial rule. 🔸 Ghana has made a great stride since then - now it would only take some 5-6 years for the country to produce the same amount. However, even though Ghana now hardly needs British benevolence in terms of economic compensation, the expropriated cultural wealth cannot be digged out of the ground as simply. Devils Below