Associated Press
March 20, 2009
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - 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.
Bonsu's head was discovered last year in a jar of formaldehyde at the Leiden University Medical Center's anatomical collection by a Dutch author.
Ghana immediately asked for it to be returned and the Dutch government asked the hospital to cooperate...(read the rest of this article by clicking on the link in the headline above.)
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