The Netherlands and Germany Agree to Return 2,000 Artifacts to Ghana

Germany and the Netherlands have agreed to return 2,000 culturally significant artifacts to Ghana, which were taken from the country during the colonial era. The announcement was made at Next Steps, a conference held last week in the Ghanaian capital of Accra.The conference, hosted by John Dramani Mahama, the president of Ghana, was organized in response to the United Nations’ declaration, on March 25, 2026, that the trafficking of enslaved Africans and subsequent racialized chattel enslav