A sacred drum looted by French forces during its colonial rule in Ivory Coast has been returned to the country, more than a century after it was taken.
It was seized by colonial authorities in 1916 before being taken to France in 1929, where it was put on display at the Trocadéro Museum and later at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris
The Djidji Ayôkwé, as the talking drum is called, was welcomed home by members of the Ebrié community, its original owners. It is more than three metres (10 ft) long, weighs about 430kg (68 stone), and is carved from iroko wood.
The return is part of a wider French effort to repatriate African cultural artefacts, a process that began in 2017.
It arrived aboard a specially chartered plane but was not removed from its large wooden crate marked "fragile".
