France returns the sacred Djidji Ayôkwé drum to Ivory Coast, over a century after it was seized by colonial authorities in ...

It ⁠was used by the Atchan people, native to southern Ivory Coast, ​to alert locals to forced labour operations being carried out by ​colonisers and to mobilise fighters.

France has returned a looted sacred talking drum to Ivory Coast, marking the first official restitution of precious artifacts ...

France returned a sacred drum that was taken from the Ivory Coast during colonial rule at a ceremony in Abidjan on Friday, ...