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This is Ghana, a country in West Africa.
这是加纳，西非的一个国家。
It's home to around 32 million people and is known for its vibrant culture.
这个国家拥有约3200万人口，以其充满活力的文化而闻名。
It's also where my family are from.
我的家族也是来自那里。
People in Ghana belong to different tribes or groups.
加纳人分属于不同的部族或群体。
One of the biggest are the Asante, or Ashanti people, who were once part of a strong and powerful kingdom.
其中最大的一个部族是阿散蒂人，他们曾经是一个强大王国的一部分。
Fast forward to today, and an important part of Asante culture is in the news, and it's all to do with the British Empire.
快进到今天，阿散蒂文化的一个重要组成部分出现在了新闻当中，而这一切都与大英帝国有关。
For hundreds of years, Britain and many other European countries established colonies around the world,
数百年来，英国和许多其他欧洲国家在世界各地建立了殖民地，
meaning that the people trade and laws in these nations came under British control.
这意味着这些国家的人民、贸易和法律都在英国的控制之下。
During this time, the British looted a large number of important items from Ghana.
在此期间，英国人从加纳掠夺了大量的重要物品。
But for the past 150 years, they've been sitting in British museums.
但在过去的150年里，这些物品一直被放在英国博物馆里。
These items have deep spiritual and political significance to the Asante people, as I found out when I spoke to one of their leaders, Chief Agyeman Bonsu.
当我和阿散蒂人的一位首领--阿吉曼·邦苏酋长交谈时，我发现了这些物品对阿散蒂人具有深刻的精神上的和政治上的意义。
"For us it's not just an artifact. It is the soul of the kingdom.
“对我们来说，它不仅仅是一件历史文物。而是王国的灵魂。
And to have taken those items from us, robbed us of those important historical relics,
从我们手中夺走的这些东西，是我们重要的历史文物，
I mean, we would have loved to have had them here for the current and the future generations, we want to have them back."
我们希望这些文物能留在这里，为了现在和未来的几代人，我们希望它们能回来。”
Now the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum are loaning 32 of these items back to Ghana.
现在，大英博物馆和维多利亚与艾尔伯特博物馆，正在将其中的32件物品“出借”给加纳。
It's part of a rout that's gone on for years about whether items taken by the British Empire from other countries should be returned.
这是多年来关于大英帝国从其他国家掠走的物品是否应该归还的争议的一部分。
The Ghanian government has called the loan a good starting point and a sign of some kind of healing and commemoration for the violence that happened.
加纳政府称这次的“出借”是一个良好的开端，是对发生的暴力事件的某种治愈和纪念的标志。
The big boss of the Victoria and Albert Museum says that the new deal doesn't solve the debate, but it does start the conversation about what should happen to the looted items like these.
维多利亚与艾尔伯特博物馆的负责人称，新的协议是无法解决争议的，但确实开启了关于如何处理这些被掠夺物品的对话。
