Outside pressure led the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London to announce a deal late last month that temporarily returns 32 gold and silver artifacts to the Asante people ...

Nigeria’s recently opened Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA) stands ready to receive them. Yet the British Museum has remained resistant. “Africa is rising,” Great said.

Two British museums are returning gold and silver artifacts to Ghana under a long-term loan arrangement — 150 years after the items were looted from the Asante people during Britain’s colonial ...