The new law focuses on African art and artifacts taken between June 1815 and April 1972.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Photo of the Djidji Ayokwe, an ancestral talking drum of the Atchan people living in southern Ivory Coast, taken from the Ivory ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — France returned a sacred talking drum looted during the colonial period to Ivory Coast on Friday as part of a nearly decade-old effort by the French government to return ...

Traditional chiefs wearing crowns and gold chains gathered at Ivory Coast’s main airport on Friday to welcome the return of a “talking drum” looted more than a ‌century ago, the first artifact ...