'It's a violation': African princesses want return of ancestor's stick from Irish museum

Princess royals Mamtshawe Zukiswa Kona and Ncedisa Maqoma. Picture:: Journalist Collect 

The South African princesses are coming and they want their stick back.

Princess royals Ncedisa Maqoma and Princess Mamtshawe Zukiswa Kona of the Xhosa nation flew into Dublin on Monday to view, for the first time, their ancestor Chief Maqoma’s sacred warrior’s stick which was looted and brought to Ireland 150 years ago.