w.'s crime fighters are back with africa's most successful radio drama series continues from the all of us odes are available online and of course you can share and discuss on g.w. africa's facebook page and other social media platforms crime fighter to me now. on the one hand you had this kind of narrative of european civilization on the other hand you had exploitation. the question should be what is the look you know it's everywhere and it's in everything but nobody can see it her name in. most european countries did was sell it civilize admission.

and i thought it was no. good it was no. good i don't know. if the black lives mashonee into new migratory flows european colonialism has been put center stage centuries of european imperialism are still impacting on the modern world but this legacy is often completely missing from political discourse how deeply on our western societies themselves reach it in colonialism. what are the questions we need to be asking for artists respond. images of people under colonial rule objectified by the white came with a few brush strokes american artist roger carlo reinvents these photos and many others. 'd she paints away the exhaust of sighs and white european view of the

world and the way so many in the west see history. at work very fast i work very intuitively and i just let the images kind of come out and often what happens is that there's a kind of funny or violent. pushback to the image. and name was burma's girl with a taste for revenge. aluminum indio weaving cloth for a superpower. so islanders uniting in solidarity. photographs and by repeat in the 19th and 20th centuries come out of color has been free claiming them for 20 years she says he still shaped how people view each other even today.

these images exert power and they still exert power over my life how i see myself and how i see others and i think that's true for every everyone and so why these images can still exert this influence is what interested in exploring like how does power work how does how does power work. and why do those images still affect how people see me. carlos says she feels less like a foreigner here in her adopted home berlin than she did in california where she was born to indian parents. and i actually see myself as equal parts. and so for me it was always rooted in this perspective that i am american and it's from the lens of being a person of color in the us. but also being an american so having this. history and

legacy as part of my identity and these were always a starting point for me that understand and look and keep cool. in history. and in the rest of the world. cowell has reclaimed hundreds of photos from this book the peoples of the earth originally published in 1902 as an academic work she sees it as more of a collection of colonial fairy tales she has sex them and overlays them with new content laden with irony and political commentary. gaskins are futuristic aeronauts. persian dervish is lesser. it's also about a type of representation where people are pictured so that their humanity is not the 1st thing that you encounter when you look at their pictures and for me the

projects all my projects are kind of bringing this humanity about. the series do you know our names there's a similar act of rehabilitation based on images of women's bodies from the same book stereotyped for ethnographic research. a lot of these original images the women were without hair without close the eyes were unfocused there was like so little representation of their humanity or their dignity or their beauty the painting for me was a type of care i started to give them makeup i started to give them a modern hairstyle i started to give them clothes and they suddenly started to have an identity and dignity that was taken from the original photograph. her latest project. focuses on how the media portrays people who fled their homes

compared to more privileged travelers painted on to page is of an expedition report filed by wilfred sasser progeny of a british colonial dynasty. for me wilfrid that's it your symbolize kind of everything i hate. and. big thing to say like he is aristocratic british and who traveled with tribal people in saudi arabia and he is considered a hero by everyone in the world he gets to define what history is he gets to think what is the what and people listen and then on the other and the other spectrum of this travel. is the refugee and the refugee is passed. they are criminalized and they are here. raj come all colors counters this image with

portraits of people looking from the pages of travel. she uses colonial era photographs to tell stories about the press. the question should be what is colonialism not rape so it's like if you think about environmental. catastrophe of the environment right now if you think about borders if you think about migration if you think about military occupations everything is conditioned by colonial histories and policies and they continue. in the courtroom subjects games out of this world with. 4 mean beauty is the important form of protest it's about my. who needs

a sense of empowerment and then also it's about getting even seen to the people that are photographed it's a kind of redistribution of power. a city in the north of england is where johnny pitts grew up. a journalist television presenter and photographer his mother was from a white working class family and his father was an african american so musician kids' book propane traces his journey through black europe to uncover black european identities that go beyond cliche. you either get images of black people in tower blocks and hoodies looking like they're violent or you get images of black people or sports stars and smiling or like at festivals or carnivals and having fun and party in but you don't often see the in-between this of things the banality the everyday in this. work commute i want to people on the metro

going going to pick their kids up from school to get a kind of every day black experience that kind of tries to normalize rather than exhaust society's blackness in your. field of johnny pitts travel to paris and brussels on to amsterdam lim stockholm i must say he wanted to meet black europeans from the most diverse backgrounds as the son of an african american he experienced the structural racism 1st chance but he knows that his experiences are different from various of many other black britons. while my dad was brought to this very house you know the neighbors would say oh that's richie the american the entertainer there was a kind of romance about it there was something that was exotic about him so people would look at him and after think about british colonialism so that's a very different experience of course the black community is they were here who are who have this shared history who. tangled up in colonialism.

johnny pitts tells us about the effects of imperialism on black people in europe the legacy of colonialism and what drew him to through the continent i did start to know is arising racism and it troubled me and i start to know it's a kind of insularity that is taking place in this country that scares me a smooth brown skin living on an island. that is leaning towards the right so i wanted to look beyond britain i discovered an old continent that was creaking. and black community is very often living on the periphery of europe. and the new notion of blackness that never really fit together properly you know the more i tried the afro peon solidly on to something the more it fell apart on what is afro paean is it something that actually exists or is it a construct it's definitely a construct i don't want to say exactly what the word if it resonates if you feel

like you want something that can explain a kind of. pull oral isn't in a single word than you might flock to and that's what happened in very quickly the community emerged from this word and i think that's something the the black community in europe haven't had historically in the same way that the african-american community of fog you know a kind of solidarity in the face of racism different pain interweave stories of the people pitts meets on his journey with the history and beauty and colonialism slight of atrocities were europeans committed on africans that is still often shrouded in silence today that includes the genocide people trying to buy imperial german troops and a number of people in present day new video. germans often seem to deny or even suppress their the history of colonialism was that your impression i find that there is a bit of kind of historical amnesia about german colonialism if you think of the

where africa was carved up it was actually in berlin africa was called the people across europe got together in berlin to decide which parts of africa they would choose for themselves which is why the continent of africa is full of the natural straight lines that were drawn by somebody in europe on a rule and said we'll take that part you know and so i think there is a great forgetting all across the continent not just in germany i think one of the places that really shocked me is belgium because you know of course belgian colonialism was a particularly very kind of colonialism that many of the massacred more than 10000000 congolese. ringback you have countries like belgium justify you know treating people in such a inhumane and cruel way one of the things that really bothered me about what found

in belgium was was found in a book called simpson in congo and i was a big fan of tintin growing up i watched the cartoons and i read the books what scared me seeing this edition of tintin in congo that was used as propaganda for belgian colonialism. so you had this notion that belgian colonialism was a kind of force for good was a benevolent force that was providing infrastructure for these these lazy or inept africans when of course the real reason they were in belgium was because they were exploits in the ivory and the robot you know during the industrial revolution. what would it take responsibility i guess in a political sense where there's a conversation about reparations which i completely on board with i don't see why black communities should receive money for for. you know the things that create

a system that still places at the bottom i think there needs to be a level of honesty and i think it does start with teaching colonialism in schools when i'm criticizing europe when i'm criticizing this country our europe to be a better place i want to take part in europe. i want britain to be a better place i'm fighting for this country but maybe not in the way that people traditionally fought for it which is you know to keep. prejudices in place. johnny vision a year that confronts its colonial past head on and stops marginalizing black people . many valuable artifacts from african countries are held in european museums the fact the treasures are here testifies to a colonial past and triggers modern day controversy should they be repatriated and

what context can european museums show them today. when we go to those we look at those objects. it's more like it is not the case and the whole thing. i think the institutions and the euro and the whole global north conservative that means they don't want to change their power position on. the lens noise museum that holds the famous bust of now for t.-t. which attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year for close to a century egyptians have been demanding her return without success so how can these art collections be freed from their colonial context and made accessible to everyone artists nor all badri and john nikolai melas published this 3 d. scan of national t.v. online without the museum's permission. as long as to control not just the physical artifact but also the digital one you kind of control the narrative around it

because then you can decide which research by example you give it to with the data in the public domain berlin state museums lost their monopoly over this cultural treasure at least digitally now anyone with a 3 d. printer can make their own net for t.v. one replica now lies buried in the egyptian desert as a kind of symbolic restitution. that actually matter when all of your material cut material objects of the culture are in another country and completely decontextualized and actually got there violently namely through colonialism so it totally doesn't matter where the object is who gets to tell the story the imperial museum is also seat the process of the transmission of the museum has begun now we gained 70 to tell the story publishing the data set on a public domain with an effort. without the project that's very important for me

that now the reality has changed because everyone can actually access it remakes it talk about it discuss it. with the help of scraped data 3 d. techno. and artificial intelligence nora badri began to reconstruct the history of mesopotamia to do this she had to collect thousands of images of real objects she managed to get access to the databases of european museums through the digital back door. as long as those kind of kind of just consider themselves i think they're not relevant and meaningful in our world and they don't connect to what's going on today whereas i think the objects and their stories too are totally and through this digital what i call techno heritage it's possible to reappropriate the meaning of representation and. meaning. nor al badri the images have special meaning because they represent the cultural

heritage of her father's homeland. vision is one of the few works i do that actually have a very biographical component i would say because i'm half iraqi is a country which i could never visit so little bit of research for like how did he look like and can be recreate some things without just copying it but generating completely new objects and that's important especially in a region which is nowadays iraq where everything usually is just destroyed and looted the way project fossil futures also employs digital technologies to tackle the issue of stolen cultural heritage and public property and southern tanzania many dinosaur bones were unearthed during the german colonial domination tons of these valuable fossils were taken abroad.

it was the sports and tender group where the dinosaur which is today the centerpiece of the natural history museum in berlin was excavated and. seen exploit it today it is a multinational company is the exact same spot and of course the people there are great and i totally understand this and so for all of my projects i go to this place and talk to the people one of these places is berlin's gurlitz are part torrijos for drug dealing many of the dealers here fled from sub-saharan africa they lack work permits and prospects. he is planning an event where these men will paddle art drugs. i think a. situation and a real time here what we can see. and that's. thing. like bodies and my proposition here. and if

a substance for imagining another world. nor a very firmly believes that the power of art can break down colonial structures and the inequality they've created. were. a sort of electronic beat. after a breakup. produced this track in camera. crying the same time. she says women there were treated with more respect before the europeans came. out of. the society. with. such an impact people. they were raising also the culture of the people. in the detention 1st century.

i couldn't swallow my pride trust and try here though you elsom ballo was 10 when she left cameron and came to germany along with her 2 brothers. their mother wanted to do her doctorate at a german university. coming here it was a dream as a small african child white culture is on though it seems everywhere it's the norm is the standard. so when you know as a 10 year old that you're going to europe it's like the sugar candy place. but in a small town in southern germany she was the only black girl around she experienced the burden of being a mother of racism they don't teach you about quoting their lives in terms of where

the we sources come from and how did well come to europe in such an amount it came from their colonies and it's really insane to me to be in this world and go to school so many years where the teacher who supposedly about the world you're going to be living in and leave out this huge part of history. when she was 20000 decided to return to cameroon in search of her remains. and it was really researching where i'm coming from where i wore my in terms of legacy and history. and it was really sad also to see that my parents how little connection to even what was before them. she wanted to establish a musical connection to geoff you know the well welcome home is about family and

all its strengths and flaws. when i went to come out i was playing the guitar and i was saying and i got in come on and just realize that. the get how to laser it was not loud enough i couldn't hold on like. europe is very close. in europe. yes. it's like when the general the so it didn't much the energy. really should change styles experimented with electronic beats and made sound collages discovering the world anew in the process. and just a mix of the african reality in the digital form basically but. past and from now.

now spends most of her time in germany she lives with her young daughter in berlin but africa is a strong part of the mix on this track she sample speeches by kwame and crew mock the 1st leader of an independent gonna. and mixes them with bits of dialogue she recorded during taxi rides around cameroon . now. she no longer feels the need to enlighten germans who blank on their country's colonial past in germany i have conversations more with people who are like germany. in berlin gets a taste of home at this cameroonian restaurant these days her search for identity has faded a bit into the background. the mixture of the to make. because

going back to come and. go back. which was true but i guess i needed to do that. so at the end it would be up to me to create that that mixture in my if we did. i try school because it's just very much healthy it's a healthy balance. and that's something she hopes to pass on to her daughter. what i discover with this is that important it's ok. to live in that space not knowing and uncertainty why are you enjoying the journey so maybe be calling closer to war and. so these berlin street names that are a relic of germany's colonial past don't discourage. she says the future of the

streets lies in the hands of the city's black communities. the past can help the future that was 21. time.

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