Last month, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) cleared the way for the return of Ngonnso’, the first ever restitution to Cameroon.
Close to three decades ago, Prof. Bongasu Tanla Kishani a member of the Nso tribe of northwestern Cameroon spotted a lost sacred artifact of his people at the Ethnological Museum in Dahlem, Berlin.
The mythical statue known as Ngonnso’—which had been missing for 120 years—beyond its ethnological and cultural significance, is the statue of the founder and first queen-mother of the Nso Kingdom who is highly revered as a goddess by her people.
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