Badu Bonsu II was the leader of the Ahanta tribe and a Ghanaian king who was executed in 1838 by the Dutch, who, at the time, were in control of the Dutch Gold Coast.
He was hanged after he was sentenced for the murder of two Dutch emissaries.[1]. Following the execution his body was desecrated as a Dutch surgeon removed his head. The head was taken to the Netherlands, where it would soon be lost for over a century
The Leiden University Medical Center in The Netherlands was found to be in possession of his head in 2005, stored in formaldehyde at the Leiden University Medical Center. In March 2009, government officials announced that it would be returned to its homeland for proper burial.[2] On July 23, 2009, the Dutch officially returned the king's head to Ghana in a ceremony held in The Hague.[3]