A treaty promise fulfilled 35 years laterSourced
He asked for his grandfather's remains.
A treaty had already promised their return.
Tanganyikan chief Adam Sapi Mkwawa began seeking the return of his grandfather's skull from Germany in 1948. Its return had been promised in the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. The skull came back in 1954, when a large crowd attended the ceremony.
A written promise
finally became a homecoming.
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