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Go back and fetch it - Learning from the past to build a better future

Explore the rich history and enduring connections between the Asante Kingdom of Ghana and the Kingdom of the Netherlands

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Conservation of Asante Textiles, Gold and Wood

What it takes to keep the objects: light and humidity for kente, handling for gilded wood, insects in tropical storage, and the collaborations between Ghanaian and Dutch conservators.

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Genealogy and Family History Across Ghana and the Netherlands

Practical routes for tracing Euro-African and Belanda Hitam descent: Elmina church registers, KNIL service records, Indonesian civil registration and the archives that hold them.

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Maps of the Gold Coast: Reading Cartography Critically

How Dutch and other European cartographers depicted the Gold Coast and its interior, what the blank spaces and confident borders really represent, and where to find the maps.

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