gladiators were at the center of ancient rooms and detainment industry visitors can now see the park they played in bowman society on the museum's website and when italy's kohut restrictions on lifted in towson as well. you're watching the news coming up next dot film looks at africa's movie art i'm michael okun thanks for being with us. imagine how many polish old loves us right now in the world climate change the 1st awful story basis my plastic weight from just one week. what's going to really just what. we still have time to. i'm going.

to bomb bomb the city there must be little people. in them to look at is not to. go through for live when you're wrong but people if it's in a time a cultural heritage then you steal their souls. and then you can enslave them or this club. is going to go wrong you know. what is. the getting the ball what happened hollowed out society many talented. it was dramatic and that wasn't

even the worst that happened to the match. the at. gundel nice new zealand i can't walk up to the soul of a people to use it at least that's the logical museums are like prison his friend mr this is in their prisons is it. was a little. it was there. to feel. like that the banks of the warrior river on the edge of the coastal city of tijuana. last minute preparations are underway in

a few days' time the most influential families into all out will be competing in a canoe race the entity nailed down after. the contest is a traditional part of the annual gone to water festival. valère and is the chairman of the festival's board of elders he's checking up on progress only after the carved wooden figurehead known as the tongue gate is put in place can he have and begin the economy. the tongue game is only put in place on saturday regime or you know some of it's the very last part of the preparations on the if it's not done at any old time not a traditionally it's done on the eve of the event yes and it's not done by any old person is if i was key to find object on merit is was way too long. on a dollar. and the 10 k. is not merely decorative. it is

a magical object keep bought loose all sides the outcome of the canoe race. as a walker victory or defeat depends on it. who are the fed did up yaga the time game contains the forces of the rivers depths. opal formed of 3 valid. in. one of these ornate figureheads was looted by german colonial powers in the 19th century it was your lack of alere pay these regional elders have

a deep respect for the cult of the tongue and the driver the issues of colonial looting war and the repatriation of african art is every bit as pressing a topic here as it is in europe you chop off all the skin i get the impression that our debate here tends to remain very eurocentric off option b. no one is talking to africans and asking them what they envisage want solutions they have in mind and want to sort of co-operation they would like to see is the repatriation of objects so this. some of which are over 100 years old but what matters most of them all my day have other priorities future us victor we're not saying all i am not saying that everything should be right on but if there are ones that we have taken on various our conversations i think they should be returned to their own good justification for the killing spree massacre and therefore it cannot be any justification for the continued return for the consumer attention. to work

live in the middle of. the cultural heritage were stripped away in a brutal fashion nothing can fill the void that was left. that's why it's important that repatriation occurs. some there's no doubt that it would help reconcile a violently fractured society. in the late 19th century german and british colonialists were scrambling for influence on the coast of cameroon in 884 the dualla kings signed a treaty of protection with german trade representatives. but luck preserved oppose the treaty several months later he felt the full force of germany's military muscle when german warships reached. on december 21st 884 his village was attacked and torched at least 25 people lost their lives. the german consul

maxed out wrote in his journal the house of law presale is being torn down a stirring striking image we are setting everything on fire. as booty move not took a wood carving from the house a tangle the futile boat ornaments belonging to luck prison. when max book now returned to munich a year later he gave this tangay to the royal ethnographic collect. today's 5 continents museum. a gift drenched in blood today over 100 years later the curator stefan eisen hoffa is grappling with the question of this wrongfully obtained objects ownership. did a lot of noise since the late 1990 s. professor prince come undone day the 3rd has been demanding its return on the

grounds that he is its rightful owner producer shift oh does that undermine this is a town there that belonged to my grandfather i am his successor so on. but the germans say that i am my grandfather's rightful heir. but. please. didn't mean city in southern nigeria. sadly in recent decades it's notoriety as the hub of human trafficking has eclipsed its centuries old reputation as a center of arts and crafts and specifically bronze works. not far from the royal palace of the. street is a unesco world heritage site home of the guild of binny bronze casters.

and local artist in a tear or is visiting his friend a wayne i'd be in his broadcasting workshop it he uses the same method employed 700 years ago. with the last wax process molten metal is poured into a mold that has been created with a wax model once the mold is made the wax model is melted and drained away the process means that each work is unique but these days scrap metal is used as well as bronze is a 4 minute walk sort of ritual for. the parents possibly the children it's your party to the old tutor to visual children though i consider a little bit of our former from history so we do good references from with a good bit of a couple of. those off for now would buy again but in time it becomes a measure to do with. one sorry yes we've also yes of course we just use our brit

surprised to be given people for most times if we don't do it he writes it's part of our bodies he misses. 897 the kingdom of binning in today's nigeria was rich in palm oil rubber and ivory trade with the europeans was flourishing but the king. was a thorn in the side of the british who wanted greater influence in what was the last independent kingdom in the region they sent a small expedition to binning city it was ambushed on route leaving 7 british officials dead in response the british launched a punitive expedition by a force of 1200 soldiers of the royal navy. the troops burned down towns and

villages massacring local residents once they had captured the city they began looting its monuments and the royal palace ivory wood carvings masks bronze sculptures and relief so thousands of valuable artifacts were stolen shipped to europe and distributed to its major museums berlin ended up with one of the largest collections. the obama was sent into exile. to this day there has been little repatriation of these looted artifacts in 2000 prints. submitted a formal request. to the british house of commons for restitution of a number of items in vain i think you will want a tragic tone of this things. that belong here they said they were made down wheedle the puppet was the reason why we made them headed out of every country

cornered as they are headed to the half not to hit the wall which would miss things looted the block your husband left. to the. bad yet churchill. classic what the beneath the national museum showcases the history of the famous dineen bronzes what little museum director they have for those in the by explains their significance while abroad heads welzel rolls blocks here and i would run to use for their. shrines the palace of the overall didn't

know roses removed nor jewels for statics is not sick and really more t.v. you see and it's tell us a story. so the bronze castles were part of the critical hours of the history a bit in the history of est. immortalized in bronze the newly renovated museum houses works made after the british conquest 3 the older works are in europe and the u.s. you're just taking a road map to tell a story. because part of the. the cell in movie on trees. with a monkey is when these were and without cause are we're british savages so in those awful what is are the orgasm broads the change i'm not getting about us . germany's ethnological museums are brimming with artifacts amassed overseas bought

traded gifted and looted well over 1500000 of them. but only 5 percent have ever been put on display in many instances little is known about them beyond brief notes in the museums inventories to whom did they originally belong what was their purpose provenance research can help shed light on their origins but often entails laborious detective work so that the linden museum stood guard is looking into the provenance of its libya collection with the help of stephen issaka from the initiative heritage watch namibia would be a big for starters we would not know what in the stalls of european museums we would not we would not have the full inventory the size the log of the markets and basically our museum storage is off some of the artifacts are increasingly in

a state of disrepair because museums are unable to restore them and properly look after them viviana a began. to objects have been exhibited in stuttgart just twice in over 100 years a bible and a whip from namibia. in 2013 the libyan embassy formally requested their return. german southwest africa 893. hendrik with born 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 apra german colonial forces attacked and ransacked the village 80 people were brutally murdered and the others taken by the soldiers who also made off with whip boys bible and cattle web after the massacre which boy

was forced to cooperate with the colonial authorities but he later led another uprising before he was killed in action in 1000 or 5. in the subsequent genocide over half the nama population was wiped out by german forces. with boys bible and with or donated to the linden museum in germany 117 years later they're about to return to namibia. hard to sell it's a talk on the today is the last day that these items will be exhibited in the newseum next week they'll be packed up we've had a special protective box made for them exhibits and i had it with me on the plane.

february 29th the delegation touches down in lynn talk early in the morning. was. hendrik records descendants are attending the reception. and the 50. 5 in. a debate about the repatriation of stolen art has been raging in berlin for some

time the rebuilt berlin city palace will house the homeless forum which will serve as the new home of the ethanol. dickel museum. but how many of its treasures are colonial blood antiquities. the homebuilt 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 1904 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 people thinking. we have nothing we are nothing we were never anything but so right 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 lens paint with sand from eagle in st the historical home of the big name brands casters. when you're preparing the back row will start a friend but 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 cisco object c.s.l. economies relates to this thins one on one. so it must attend to stories concerning the queen of hearts images and again on our young people can see this excellent representations which i made by the house i still wasn't as proud of. the queen is proud of because western art. is made up of subjects of 4 forms which are

alien to us. she called me a spartan is proud a little some level would be worth because obama is played by african mask you imagine how our africa coming inspired by b. think i must but what i have been to see yeah but an estimated 95 percent of artifacts from the main currently housed in museums overseas were looted during the punitive expedition that are going to make the strings more legible meaning 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 us who do speak to . you speak to the resume prosthesis do you speak to the government would you speak to the summerland. collections don't belong to the various museums the museums can make recommendations for specific approaches 0 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 dineen 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 a money critic and what i would criticize about that then in dialogue group is the lack of transparency and the fact that still talking about prominent loans even their own 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 bronzes back become developed kind of but all of. that while you're just belong to the music goes with the house of the cultures that that. look let's bring them in for a view that. i do not think it is what. yes they believe people want it all want to know do they want i'll treasure tongue. in they mean city there is also disagreement over the best course of action clearly it will take more than initiatives like to be mean 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 presented was head of the billy bennett people. the munich museum where it ended up wants proof that the prince is his rightful heir design from the as he wanted to be advisor they say they want to produce a manger and does them both bring in this book i've gathered all the documents the germans require showing that i am doc preserves rightful heir. been he had so much he goes on this year for example in 1904 the better bad name to me heir to the throne i was one of the repairs on the prince is an elite member of the ballet by the chiefdom is

a member of the family but he's not the king message but what. the uganda water festival is getting started on the do on is incumbent kings have gathered. pointing out there is here to represent the bella belum lineage and it was. he has little interest in the town game where the artifacts to be returned to cameroon it would serve to strengthen his rival commandant his claim to the throne is. the power struggle in the bene benefactor only hampering the repatriation effort. the complexity distance who owns even if it's a complex matter. up. in our opinion there is insufficient evidence that. he is not precisely just not successor. he was we most certainly made further talks because creating with the official head of the bella bella

family poland i don't see it yet germany insists on again shaping with a chieftains authorized person then that's me so there was so as with the question of lot of praise it was succession is fraught with controversy and to allah he had 32 sons so a number of potential successors including horton does that is he is most definitely not a descendant of last resort the germans don't even realise he doesn't even belong to a lot results family of 4 look president says here. it's very hard for us to get to the bottom of this conflict to give you an offer for the question has to be resolved before we can return the artefact. dincha 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 nico art gallery in lagos opened in 2007 and has displayed work by more than 5000 artists. collection is the largest in west africa. she has her doubts about the return of the bin in bronzes. i we're ready to receive them that is the question. you want us is how things were said reacquainting there has his own opinion. i respect your views on 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 doc all what we need if i wanted bach i would build a place that is called him and so i will know for

a while government to build the very more dam was ill 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 distance west to the origin and most places that were into europe it was said to me where if you let us see that this is a return to you how are we sure they would not come over to europe we came to do they will be sold to you by some people i bet you those who walk i and i did have maybe by now we will not you 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 and things obvious stolen from them in the past you realize that a lot of things have not behave on the web cat. but

need is well aware that nigeria's art and culture institutions struggle with a lack of funding. plans for a new royal museum in binning city are progressing slowly due to limited financial resources. in 2007 a bronze head of an obama looted from beneath city sold for a record some of $4700000.00 u.s. dollars at southern bees beneath saw none of it even midmorning from distance over the years over centuries by a bee 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 i call my beauty fortress a calvinist i don't believe that the museum profited perhaps conception the us effects were exhibited they were promoted and researched but that benefited everyone so would call this a base of

a misconception as to how public museums were pushed and fearful to him the same 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 eluded object like the 10 game it's been on display here for over 40 years if it isn't dusty should should we know that by today's standards munich came by the figure head ethically you to not mention that most year we reached out and commanded only that you got in touch with us now the bill will hasten our courtship gets leaked out by by all means do you say these are the logical museums are like prisons. their presence to get your friends say what our soul was stolen and locked up in the best of youth the teen years that we don't see these artifacts as our hostages all prisoners they are objects that bring people together from

a common this isn't because our ceremonial objects or them are not just ornamental doesn't the gun immediately 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 lock them up somewhere else the objects belong in a magazine and all the copies should be made and displayed in communal space and 6 percent of the how do we accomplish this this is how can we use these copies to awaken

a new historical narrative i think i could conceivably. it's the day of that i'm going to festivals kalu race the 10 day 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 ever. heard. you were there on the run you are never going away anywhere are everywhere at. around 50 rowers fit in the canoes each boat has a name out of the neighborhood of dido is in the a battle bus on the canoe with a green figurehead has won a number of races. to. ok. the german delegation in namibia is on its way to the desert town f.o.b. on my. hendrik with boys bible and with a returning home with

a military escort. the official handover is a state ceremony attended by visitors from across the country and a host of high ranking media and politicians. has brought mr zeem i'm deeply moved to see how much hendrick voiced by bill and what it means to this country and it's the shame to me 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. the moment arrives. the bible and the whip are back where they belong. we want those cultural objects

back in our country so that our children can look study and be inspired by them. kendrick with boy is a national hero in libya children are taught about the freedom fighter who rebelled against the german colonial occupation was. was his descending single praises of his heroism was the. shadow not unless you were kind that he will shout you mas' bring back everything which is not jobs. in germany their knowledge ment of our difficult colonial past has taken far too long but it has been done. it taken for this is the return of the big 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 them all means is the repatriation of looted art merely 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. bisan for our basic questions the politicians don't want to ron said they'd rather simply return individual items and that worries me we need a broader discussion about europe's colonial legacy little pos see this 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 because we don't even let the meaningless and you're gonna hit on how easy will it be. for the afghan to get a 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 and food for. let me less to keep from this angle we should teach our children. what i have yet to catch i'm not every child can travel to germany. i don't want to see the scenes seen physically it's my ducati you've seen the picture. 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 without some of these raids maybe toward probably wouldn't have known the amount of torque that was coming out from this part of the ward in that sense it was good because it is there where europeans we are reflecting their society back dan was the same we were reflecting our society. it's it's new this is the latest on that i think it is a brawls that i lost touch on that i cast from beneath this is the head of i know

about this is the crucifix and so. now that we're talking about african talking about been in bronze. i think they have done to our walk they have done their job they have shown towards they have same day or do what i was saying them and i think they are kind of like thinking ok stand for us to go back or. play. with the with the with. the and the to. play was. given. the. the all checks that was stolen never played a role in society they want to explain it it's society has changed in just simple

one day you have to bring them to life in the field and then imbued them with energy. they did their 15 on the. back is sort of question of restitution has to be considered it within the context of today's world to note that the younger generation is still sound and vision can develop their own emotional relationship with them. concision of us for long periods of history and the thick steel of that . the an elite 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. i. think the boat the 10 game and the rowers are $16.00 in the text success

at the end of the race the greens. has won a narrow victory. this ship 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 the added after i'm waiting. right was done that i care that they want to document i've sent them documents publicly and the talks between i see him in munich and myself are no longer part of the ones near us have committed one are so torn we can no longer actors that our collections came to us subs of no way we have to face up to our responsibility in a justice must be done for people who sold it was stolen from them who don't don't

. read this is this once we have clara get used in a way to reconciliation must be traumatised and reconciliation does not mean africans have to go to the on board farm in berlin it's either heritage. i'm sure we don't just want to look at it as though that i want these objects to live here is the object the. history that lives and breathes just the way it does at the annual festival in the new city of 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 the name kingdom over 120 years ago. just build this you get this not even today the scars have not healed. so if we don't launch processes that will

free us of the burden of violence and pain we suffered in the past we will get nowhere. in the other what matters secure is that we thought shot the poison of this and i had a huge and reinvent a future on him fault with the future because he asked when we sort of got to. say sorry this was wrong here and then. construct was. shallow. 000000000000 uh oh. yeah it was it will. blow the whole world out here are your now at yeah sure took credit for where we're going to get it yeah yeah yeah. yeah yeah

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