really in a state of disrepair because museums are unable to restore them and properly look after them are mere not alst oberon. 2 objects have been exhibited in stuttgart just twice in over 100 years a bible and a whip from namibia. in 2013 the namibian embassy formally requested their return. german southwest africa 893. hendrik with boy lived in a village called han cons he was the chief of a nama clan and a devout lutheran. driven by his religious ideals he rebelled against the cruelty of the colonial oppressors. that april german colonial forces attacked and ransacked the village 80 people were brutally murdered and the others taken by the soldiers who were also made off with with boys bible and cattle web after the

massacre with boy was forced to cooperate with the colonial authorities but he later led another uprising before he was killed in action in 1005. in the subsequent genocide over half the nama population was wiped out by german forces. with boys bible and whip or donated to the lyndon museum in germany 117 years later they're about to return to namibia. quite to say let's talk on the today is the last day that these items will be exhibited in the museum next week they'll be packed up we've had a special protective box made for them should send i have it with me on the plane.

that he wear a 2019 the delegation touches down in lynn talk early in the morning. was . hendrik records descendants are attending the reception. and this is just. this it. was in. a debate about the repatriation of stolen art has been raging in berlin for some

time the rebuild berlin city palace well how is the home blood forum which will serve as the new home of the. dickel museum. but how many of its treasures are colonial blood antiquities. the homeless forum has brought the issue of looted art center stage. it's not the 1st time that berlin has been at the heart of a debate about imperialism. the african continent promised the colonial rulers wealth and power. colonial expansion was in full flow when in $884.00 german chancellor to fund bismarck invited european diplomats to berlin for what would go down in history as the congo conference. there they drew up a framework to regulate european colonization and trade in africa overriding most

existing forms of african autonomy and self governance britain france portugal belgium and germany all scrambled for their share they carved up the continent between them arbitrarily drawing up borders that partly exist to this day. many former colonies are still struggling to gain economic independence to resolve lingering conflicts over those arbitrarily drawn borders and to overcome the sense of inferiority instilled in them by the colonial masters. there's a lot of colonial mentality a magnet people thinking. we have nothing we have nothing we were never anything but so to be like the cannot must us in order to. get it as human beings but this narrative is coming to falls. in

a bar has opened his studio and been in city 2 young artists many of them explore the trauma of colonial rule in their creative work. was sad to see keep blends paint with sand from eagle in st the historical home of the big name brands casters . when you're preparing the back row with a scarf and black robe main thing itself always has to be difficult. so that is a connection so a little bit tricky because you have to go to the books too because we don't have the physical object object c.s. or we can read them relates to this thins one on one. so we must within the stories concerning the green and hard to do is and again to our young people can see this excellent representations which are made by the us i suppose one is proud of. the queen is proud of because western art. is made up of subjects of 4 and

forms which are alien to us. she called me a spotless proud a little some level what we wanted because alchemy is powered by african mask you imagine how our africa come inspired by be saying must what would have been to say yeah but an estimated 95 percent of artifacts from the main currently housed in museums overseas were looted during the punitive expedition how are you going to make the strings more legible binning has been calling for their return for more than a century but with no result the artifacts are scattered around the world it's a logistical challenge that we want the artifacts book but only those who do speak to. you speak to the museum crosspiece to speak to the government who has picked up the sun and get her on any of these collections don't belong to the various museums the museums can make recommendations for specific approaches or

procedures but ultimately it's a political decision because the us effects of public assets is public museums in europe are generally custodians and therefore not in a position to make autonomous decisions about repatriation in 2010 useem director bob plank in china co-founded the beneath dialogue group museum directors and delegates from europe and nigeria meet annually to discuss efforts to reunite the binning works of art dispersed in collections around the world. i mean for them we started many years ago we were thinking in terms of 10 and that's because museums would have been able to make such decisions themselves as the money critic and what i would criticize about that they mean dialogue group is the lack of transparency and the fact that still talking about prominent loans even though nigerian colleagues see that as a continuation of colonialist privilege and power structures basically the european

museums are saying well if you don't agree to permanent loans then you won't get the promises back and become the kind of growth. that your guest belong to those with their house. now that it. look let's bring them in for us let me move you that. i do not think it is a war. has that been the people want you to want to know or do they want i'll treasure tongue. in de neen city there is also disagreement over the best course of action clearly it will take more than initiatives like to be named dialogue group to resolve the problem.

a writer and professor of german language and literature prince coleman do that the 3rd has been calling for a return of his grandfather's tangay for over 20 years. when it was seized by monks in 1904 block pre-sale was head of the billy bennett people. the munich museum where it ended up wants proof that the prince is his rightful heir dissolved in that he would be advised that they say they want proof of mainzer and does them both bring in this i've gathered all the documents the germans require showing that i am rock preserves rightful heir. he had so much he goes on this year for example in 1904 a better bad name to me heir to the throne i was full of them and their prayers during the prince is an elite member of the ballet by the chief them he's

a member of the family but he's not the king message but. the gundel water festival is getting started on a do honest incumbent kings have gathered a point about there is here to represent the bella bella mini inch thick cloud. he has little interest in the tang game where the artifact to be returned to cameroon it would serve to strengthen his rival commandant his claim to the throne is. the power struggle in the bennett bena family hampering the repatriation effort . the complexity distance who owns even east also it's a complex matter. in our opinion there is insufficient evidence that. these laws precisely just not successor. humans we most certainly made further talks with pleading with the official head of the bella bella family

poland i don't see it germany insists on a game shaping with a chieftains authorized person then that's me so then what so i think the question of luck appraisal succession is fraught with controversy and to allah he had 32 sons so a number of potential successors including paul does that is he is most definitely not a descendant of last resort the germans they don't even realize he doesn't even belong to what results finally if i look for the this is here. it's very hard for us to get to the bottom of this conflict or to give you an offer for the question has to be resolved before we can return the artefact washington d.c. to people. it might not have a high profile in europe but nigeria's contemporary art scene is one of the most

vibrant in africa the neco art gallery in lagos opened in 2007 and has displayed work by more than 5000 artists. day as collection is the largest in west africa. she has her doubts about the return of the bin mean bronson's. i we're ready to receive them that is the question. you want us as husband. has his own opinions. i respect your views and their. view is not what i think he should be ok where are they just risen the argument or we don't have a place to keep them who told them to own what we need wi fi wanted box i will build a place that is called him and so i will know government to build the very more

dam was 0 but we're told that they are not ready. you don't need a special place to keep it brooms deep is big data was secured this should be returned to the palace we are a distance with studio vision and most places that were into europe it was said to me where if let's say that this is very time to you how are we sure they would not come over to you if we came to do they would be sold to you by some people i bet you those who walk i and i get there maybe by now we will not to want to see it again if you look at the news right. there were allies that a lot of the european museums have been broken into are things have been stolen from them in the past you realize that a lot of things have not behaved on the web chat.

but. is well aware that nigeria's art and culture institutions struggle with a lack of funding. plans for a new royal museum in been in city are progressing slowly due to limited financial resources. in 2007 a bronze head of an obama looted from been in city sold for a record some of $4700000.00 u.s. dollars that's other bees beneath him saw none of it you've made money from these things over the years over centuries by a bit keeping them i know how much i paid to endow the museums in the europe or in america and all of those things why don't you take some of the money a comma budet fortress a calvinist i don't believe that the museum profited perhaps conception any thinking at the us effects were exhibits it they were promoted and researched but that benefited everyone so what the cost is a base of

a misconception as to how public museums were questioned as fearful for him was the folks who managed to collect preserve study educate and exhibit this is the mission of a public museum but museum director would have village has had to confront the question what are the ethics of exhibiting a sacred object a looted object like the town gate it's been on display here for over 40 years divison thus they should show we know that by today's standards munich came by the figurehead ethically you to not mention that most year we reached out and commando that got in touch with us now the ball is in courtship gets picked up by ones does it and these are the logical museums are like prisons. their presence to get defends a vote our soul was stalling and locked up in the best of my youth the genius that we don't see these artifacts are hostages all prisoners they are objects that bring

people together to form a common this isn't because our ceremonial objects or them are not just ornamental doesn't the gun to merely looking at objects is a european cultural products and this is over. but is a museum in cameroon the right home for the tongue either. maryland bell thinks not . the co-founder of the contemporary art center do all art she believes art belongs among the people in marketplaces in villages. and. we need to reframe the museum question said we don't want to say good to the architects have been great hatfield said of him and now we'll knock them out somewhere else the objects belong in a museum those are copies should be made and displayed in communal space and see focus set of shit how do we accomplish this this is how can we use these copies to awaken

a new historical narrative of the computer from say. it's the day of that we're going to festivals kalu race. gay was put in pride of place during the night in a secret ritual today the public is out in full force to support their team a step. further 2. wherever they are underway i know anywhere are everywhere. around 50 rowers fit in the canoes each boat has a name out of the neighborhood of dido is in the beetle bus on the way the canoe with a green figurehead has won a number of races. yet. ok. the german delegation in the media is on its way to the desert town and be on my.

hendrik with boys bible and with a returning hub with a military escort. the official handover is a state ceremony attended by visitors from across the country and a host of high ranking libyan politicians. as brooke ministers in deeply moved to see how much hendrick that voice bible and will mean to this country and especially and i'm a little ashamed knowing that these objects will safeguard it is much more or less languishing in our collections for other 100 years before about how many some new ones of us museums. at the moment arrives. the bible and the whip are back where they belong. leave one of those cultural objects

back in our country so that our children can look study and be inspired by them. kendrick with voice is a national hero in libya children are taught about the freedom fighter who rebelled against the german colonial occupation was. it was his descending single phrases of his heroism. the. shadow not to let you break i got the wee hours out you must bring back everything which is not jobs. in germany their knowledge meant of our difficult colonial past has taken far too long but it has begun. it taken for this is the return of the bit boy bible and whip

after more than 100 years far too long. and i'm deeply sorry for that. the bible and with is handed to the president of namibia. but there is an irony to the fact that the 1st major artifact to be returned by germany to africa was a bible brought by the german colonial masters to namibia and then stolen by the news is the repatriation of looted art really so much empty symbolism is it perhaps not more urgent to ask how colonial thinking still shapes politics what responsibility does europe have to africa will germany ever atone for the herero nama genocide. this in for our visa questions the politicians don't want to ronsard they'd rather simply return individual items and that worries me we need a broader discussion about europe's colonial legacy little pos see it has got the ultimate goal is not simply to return as much as possible the goal is to

systematically work through the issue widen access and nurture dialogue and work together as equal partners. partners because we don't even let them in a sense you're gonna hear i'm how easy will it be easy for the afghan to get the visa to go to your country. but in a world riven by inequality and injustice how much of a priority is the return of stolen art are there not more urgent problems that need solving for us power to education. through the forward. let me let's take it from this angle we should teach our children our courts what i have read to each i'm not every child can travel to germany. i don't want to see the students seen physically it's my duty to.

you how you see it you feel it. when nigerian artist victoria he come into our visits europe and the us he makes a point of going to see the bin in bronzes his ancestors as he calls them. and he posts them on instagram. probably with some of these raids maybe the award probably wouldn't have known the model of. that was coming out from this part of the ward in that sense it was good because it's not there where europeans we have reflect into our society back then was the same we were reflecting our society you know. it's it's new this is the latest one but i guess it is a brawls that i saw started at a cost from being named this is the head of i know about this is the crucifix and

so they're now talking about african talking about been in bronze. i think they have done to our walk they have done that job they have shown the award they have same day or do what i send them and i think they are kind of like thinking ok stand for us to go back all. the. the at the end. to the a. to a. living . in the is a brick it's all the objects that was stolen will never play the role and society they want to play a little sit society has changed in just slippers and they you have to bring them

to life in the field and imbued them with energy. they did. on the spot but this sort of question of restitution has to be considered within the context of today's have to note that the younger generation is still sound and vision can develop their own emotional relationship with them. because that engine of us who now has a visit to the effect of that. to. meet the news from across to one are taking part in today's race for the young people the figureheads are an integral part of the boats. the boat the 10 game and the rowers are 166 and. the tests

us at the end of the race they bring. tanguay has won a narrow victory. bush which is still in that top i'm just so i think ahead illustrates the complexity of restitution and the debate surrounding it but there aren't always straightforward solutions and perhaps we need to accept the fact that in some cases we won't find a solution at all those songs in this laughter i'm waiting. right has done what i can they want to welcome and i sent them documents publicly and the talks between the museum in munich and myself are no longer part of the awards near us have come ministry and are so torn we can no longer act as though our collections came to us subs of no west we have to face up to our responsibility in its social justice must be done for people whose soul was stolen from him who

don't don't. read this is this america that once we have clarity used i mean the way to reconciliation must be traumatized and reconciliation does not mean africans have to go to the on board farm in berlin to see their heritage. i'm sure we don't just want to look at it as though that we want these objects to live here is that the object here. the. history that lives and breathes just the way it does at the annual festival in the name city the festival includes a procession to the royal palace to reaffirm loyalty to the old boss the powers that was destroyed and plundered in the british conquest of been in kingdom over 120 years ago. this you get this even today the skies have not healed. so if we don't launch processes that will

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