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Sunday, March 22, 2009

King's severed head sent back home

The severed head of King Badu Bonsu II is going home to Ghana, around 170 years after it was hacked off in retaliation for the slayings of two Dutch emissaries whose skulls were hung from the tribal leader's throne.

Ghana is demanding that the Dutch return the head of King Badu Bonsu II. The head is kept in a preserving jar in a department of the University of Leiden. It’s likely that the Netherlands stole…

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Source: www.nzherald.co.nz

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