#BringBackNgonnso isn’t just for my grandfather, it is for my people too

#BringBackNgonnso isn’t just for my grandfather, it is for my people too

In 2018, Sylvie Njobati’s grandfather told her about a sacred ancient artefact known as Ngonnso, stolen by the Germans during the colonial period from 1884 to 1916, and donated to Berlin’s Ethnological Museum, by German Military Officer, Kurt Von Pavel. Ngonnso was seen as a cultural cornerstone for the Nso people, an ethnic group from the Northwest Region of Cameroon, embodying their history and identity. Keen to see it returned to its rightful…