Photos: The Ghanaian King Whose Head Was Chopped Off In 1837 And Kept At A Museum

African history comprises a great cultural heritage, powerful heroic figures, wonderful supernatural encounters, and also some sad gruesome experiences that can not be quickly forgotten.

This is one of such gruesome African historic experiences. In the Dutch and Ahanta War which occurred between 1837 to 1839. It’s believed that an Ahanta King by the name of Badu Bonsu (The 2nd) was hanged and later beheaded by the Dutch invaders at the time because of his fight against slavery and opposition to the Dutch colonization. It’s believed that his own tribesmen betrayed him and left him defenseless against the foreign force.

Badu Bonsu’s severed head was kept in a museum for public view in the Netherlands until it was sent to Ghana in 2009.The Ahanta/Ayinda are Akan People who live to the north and east of the Nzema. The Ahanta land has been historically known as one of the richest areas on the coast of what is now Ghana.