ABSTRACT
On October 30, 2010, the Fort Apollonia Museum of Nzema Culture and History was opened in Beyin, the ancient capital of the Nzema Kingdom, nowadays a tiny village on the southwestern coast of Ghana (Western Nzema Traditional Area). The significance of Fort Apollonia, a British stronghold built at the end of the eighteenth century, has changed many times throughout its history. Having been a symbol of Western exploitation and domination and then, from the mid-1960s, the headquarters of an Italian ethnological mission, it has now been transformed into a place where the value of the history and culture of the local population has been recognized within the framework of a specific process of reinterpretation of the colonial past and the relationship between local and European populations (Figure 8.1).
