would not we would not have the full inventory the size the log of the maggots in basically our museum store oh it's awful some of the artifacts are increasingly in a state of disrepair because museums are unable to restore them and properly look after them for. a bit on. 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 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 1005. in the subsequent genocide over half the nama population was wiped out by german forces. boys bible and with or donated to the linden museum in germany 117 years later they're about to return to namibia. quite the senate's a 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 exhibits and i'll have it with me on the plane.

february 29000 the delegation touches down in lynn talk early in the morning. was. was hendrik with boys descendants are attending the reception. and this is. this. was in.

a debate about the repatriation a stolen art has been raging in berlin for some time the rebuilt berlin city palace will house the humble it forum which will serve as the new home of the ethnological museum. but how many of its treasures are colonial blood antiquities. the home of forum has brought the issue of looted art center stage. it's not the 1st time that berlin has been at the heart of the debate about. realizing. the african continent promised the colonial rulers wealth and power. colonial expansion was in full flow when in 884 german chancellor the 2000 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 political mentality and as a people thinking. we have nothing we are nothing we were never anything but so right to be like degree now must us in order to forget it as human

beings but this narrative is coming to force. 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 bay name bronze casters . when you're preparing the book roll will start fine but grow main thing itself always has to be difficult. so why do the collections so a little bit tricky because you have to go to the books too because we don't have the cisco objects yes we can read them relates to this thins one on one. so we must attend to stories concerning the queen on our t.v. does and again on 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 forms which are alien to us. she called me a spartan is proud a little some level but even if because alchemy is powered by african musk you imagine how our africa come inspired by b. think i must see what i have come 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 this things 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 and we want artifacts book by all means who do speak to. you speak to the resume trustees do speak to the government to speak to someone and

get her nana's place collections done belong to the various museums the museums can make recommendations for specific approaches and procedures but ultimately it's a political decision because the artifacts are public as it is the public museums in europe are generally custodians and therefore not in a position to make autonomous decisions about repatriation in 2010 useem director bob a plank in china co-founded the bin need 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 in we started many years ago we were thinking in terms of heaven and that's because museums would have been able to make such decisions themselves as the money critic and what i would criticize about the plane in dialogue group is the lack of transparency and the fact that still talking about prominent loans even though our 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 while you're just belong to the house of the call just say that now that. i said i look let's bring them in for us view that. i do not think it is what. yes to believe people want it all one to know and do all they want i'll treasure told. him they need 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 don't bed 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 desired from the as he wanted to be adviser they say they want truth amanda and does them both bring in this book i've gathered all the documents the germans require showing that i am not preserved was rightfully. been he had so much that goes on this year for example in 1904 the better man and named me heir to the throne i was one of the new

president a prince is an elite member of the ballet ballot chiefdom he's a member of the family but he's not the king message but. the water festival is getting started on a incumbent kings have gathered. pointing about there is here to represent the bella belum lineage and it was. he has little interest in the time 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 bell abene family hampering the repatriation effort. the complex it it is this one's even if it's a complex matter. up. in our opinion it is insufficient evidence that this is not precisely just not successor. humans we most certainly

made further talks with playing with the official head of the bella bella family poland ranks it live in germany insists on a game shaping with a chieftains authorised person then that's me so there was so i didn't look question of lot of praise it was succession is fraught with controversy into allah he had 32 sons so a number of potential successors including horton. he is most definitely not a descendant of last resort the germans don't even realise he doesn't even belong to a lot brazil's family of 4 look for the us this is here. it's very hard for us to get to the bottom of this conflict or. give you an offer for the question has to be resolved before we can return the answer fact question in the incident 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. o'quinn de as 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 as husband. has his own opinions. i respect your views and. view is not what i think he should be ok where it just risen the argument or we don't

have a place to keep them who told them to own what we need if i wanted voc i will build a place that is called him and so i will know for a while 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 dead dead it was secured this should be returned to the palace where distance with studio originally most place i went to europe it was said to me where if let us say that this is certainty how are we sure they would not come over to europe we came to do they would be sold to us by some people i bet those who walk i and i get there maybe by now we would not he was seated if you look at the news right. they were allies that a lot of the european museums have been broken into on things have been stolen from

them in the past you realize that a lot of things have not behaved on the web kat. but nico 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 been in city sold for a record some of $4700000.00 u.s. dollars that's other piece beneath saw none of it you've made money from these things 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 beautiful actress a calvinist i don't believe that the museum profited perhaps conception looking at

the artifacts were exhibited they were promoted and researched but that manifested every lines of the color is a base of a misconception as to how public museums were questioned as fearful to him was in fact to me and to collect preserve study educate and exhibit this is the mission of a public museum but museum director would have vanished has had to confront the question what are the ethics of exhibiting a sacred object a looted object like the 10 gig it's been on display here for over 40 years if it's in the us they should show we know that by today's standards munich came by the figurehead ethically not mentioned but most year we reached out and commanded only got in touch with us now the ball is in our courtship gets leaked out by by all means does it rule us and these are the logical museums are like prisons. there presently she giffin you say what our soul was stolen and locked up in the best of

youth the changes that we don't see things aren't about just our hostages old 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 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 made hatfield said of him and now we'll lock them up somewhere around the objects belong in a museum those are copies should be made and displayed in communal space and sinful

set of shit how do we accomplish this this is how can we use these copies to awaken a new historical narrative in the cockpits at the. it's the day of the gone 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. got her. birth. 6 do whatever run i know anywhere are anywhere near that. 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 canoe with a green figurehead has won a number of races. ok.

the german delegation in the media is on its way to the desert town and could be 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 ministers in convention i am deeply moved to see how much hendrick voiced bible and what it means to this country and especially him 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 matam and some long 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 boys is a national hero in libya children are taught about the freedom fighter who rebelled against the german colonial occupation was that it was his descendants single praises of his heroism was. shatter nothing like what i got the wheels out your demands bring back everything you just not join us. in germany have knowledge ment of our difficult colonial past has taken far too long

but it has begun. it taken for this is the return of the big boy bible and whip after more than a 100 years far too long. and i'm deeply sorry for that. the bible and which 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 and. is the repatriation of looted art nearly 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 is for our visa questions the politicians don't want to ransack they'd rather simply return individual items and that worries me we need

a broader discussion about europe's colonial legacy will pass serious 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 main innocence you're gonna hit on how easy will it be easy 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. through the poor. 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 caught traveled to germany. i don't want to

see these 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 that they need bronzes his ancestors as he calls them. and he posts them on instagram. probably without some of these raids maybe the award probably wouldn't have known. that was coming out from this part of the ward in that sense it was good because i had to deal with europeans the way i reflect into our society back dan was this and we were reflecting our society you know. it's it's new this is the latest one that i think it

is a bronze that i lost after that i cast from beneath this is the head of i know about this is the crucifix and it's. not out talking about africa now we're talking about been in bronze. i think they have donned our walk they have done that job they have shown towards daf same door do what i've seen them and i think they're kind of like thinking ok stand for us to go back on. the. plate of. the and. to. the a was. the ad . living.

in the lives of the objects that was stolen never played a role in society they want to explain it it's society has changed in just the simple one day you have to bring them to life in the film and imbued them with energy. they did. on the. legacy of question of restitution has to be considered within the context of today's we did not say that the younger generation is still sound and vision develops that own emotional relationship with them. because that engine of us who now pissed of is to the effect that. the wings the news from across to wa are taking part in today's race for the young people the figureheads are an integral part of the boats i. was. on the boat the 10 game and the rowers are one. 6th cut

taxes . at the end of the race they bring. tanguay has won a narrow victory. to shift knob it was still in that hard i bashed buddhists a figurehead 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 on the other after i'm waiting. right was done but i can't they want to document i've sent them documents public option but transfers between the museum in munich and myself are no longer part of the ones we're that have come in east when i was so torn we can no longer act as though our collections came to us subs of nowhere we have to face up to our

responsibility then it's our justice must be done for people who sold it was stolen from them through don't don't. read this is once we have clarity unused i mean the way to reconciliation must be traumatized and reconciliation does not mean africans have to go to their own board forum in berlin at least either heritage. i'm sure we don't just want to look at it as though i want these objects to live here this is the object they hear. 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 palace that was destroyed and plundered in the british conquest of been in kingdom over 120 years ago. and. this you get even

today the scars have not healed the middle class 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. none the other what matters secure is that we thought shot the poison of this and had a huge and reinvents a few check up on him vault to the future because he asked when the source of the article. says sorry this was wrong here and then. construct was. oh oh. 0000000000000000 uh oh. yeah it was low. the old

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