cynthia, the 45 minutes on d. w. we are all set and we're watching closely. we all seem to bring you the story behind the news. we rolled about unbiased information all 3 months. done, the artifacts looted under colonial rule are increasingly being returned to the original owners. in 2022 germany began we patch reading the same as spending bronzes to nigeria today. this is the earlier i came from, cameron came to building, requesting the return of these peoples mother goddess the indigenous saw many

people in finland are also seeking. they were patch creation of artifacts from gemini, the 2000 in ton c, beethoven's 8 symphony, or she was doctoral faces for time, from poland. things around the world wide. but it's a complex issue. the in the nigerian capital a bu joe, an airplane from the german government touched down on the 18th of december 2022. it's priceless cargo, a message to the world that germany was following up as in re patch reading benning bronzes to nigeria. a 125 years off today was seized by the british.

the, the 2 government ministers attended the ceremony for the official hand over it was designed to be the 1st of many such delivery we didn't find out what this key was used for, maybe to unlock design. maybe tell us store. but what do we do know is that off to being rob from the knee, it was brought to breton, but not only to richard, and finally ended up in the city of kudos. today. this key is fact the treasures included a smaller version of a famous mosque held by the british museum. its return added to the pressure on the former colonial power on 230 by commission is the cause

has come this moment in germany. and often will gradually re penetrate the artifacts of the owners will tell us when they want, which objects and which order to the common point. the historical kingdom of bending was located in what is now southern nigeria. the bronzes were looted by british forces in 1897, when they re did the royal palace. and what has now been in city, they included the controversial queen mazda area mosque that london has so far, refused to return. other bronzes was sold to buyers all over the world. could they return now, boost opinion cds, reputation as a cultural center and draw more visitors. the trip by the german delegation with the company media attention could certainly help. august has been opening new studios in the city,

adding to the momentum scaled cod. so i do believe that our visit here in the cargo we brought is historic. and then the other important point is to think about what cooperation between museum should look like and scope of a to visit our field. modern art from here that is still powerful. we want to bring it to us, of the kindest african film, for example, coming to germany, we need to come down from our euro centric throne. but not everyone is applauding germany's decision. some say the bronzes have actually being returned to the descendants of slave traders. and that they have blood on the this is of law, the stupidity, it's clear that the beginning royals were not just victims, but also perpetrators of the kingdom ebony and regularly went to war against neighboring groups. they plundered, killed and took slaves for splost communi most and every king,

after ascending the throne they had to basically wage a war of all. and so there are huge areas in the territory surrounding the kingdom where people suffered appropriate needs its size and income. many of those captured was sold to trans atlantic slave traders and shipped to the american east coast today. many of the defendants in the us, a highly critical up the decision to return. the bronze is one of them when they set up a restitution study group in new york and has been following the developments closely . they demanding a say in the current restitution process. the bronzes themselves are key, as they were made by melting down currency and from the slave trade, we call this blood metal. this is a manila, this was a form of currency that the been a king. them was paid and exchanged for in slave people. people that they sold into the trans atlantic slave trade to your opinions of these in manila is where

a 50 page per woman, $57.00 per man. okay. so the bronzes are actually contained this metal, and we consider them part of our legacy as part of our wells, we should be co owned is because this is, this is precisely the thing that our ancestors westlake, the descendants of the slaves do not want the bronzes to return to been in the city, they say they should be kept where they are in various institutions, like philadelphia's pen, musing, and they want museums to use the bronzes to tell the victim story of suffering. the key right of the collection is a strong proponent of involving the descendants of the slaves in the shaping of the exhibition and has reached out to the community. we wanted to make the story the narrative about as slaves and a little more complex. so this is a, a, an image that is very well known as

a diagram that shows how the africans enslaved the workspace in the bowels of the boats. when we asked people in the community, what did they want to see here? that's what they wanted to see. what is the connection between and slaves, and what is the connection between colonialism? what is the connection between african independence the black lives matter movement has served to highlight the systemic injustices suffered by people of color and increase the desire to address the rooms at the past. the humbled form in berlin still has many been in bronzes. the museum was named of the german naturalist, alexander phone, humbled a man who despised the slave trade. so shouldn't the museum make a special effort to involve the descendants of the slaves? and the rest of choosing dialogue covers this week because i think it's important that everyone who is involved in this process who feels involved in some way or

feels they should be involved and should be given a voice on the bottoms like. and why shouldn't that be possible here? thinking, i think that's important. and which doesn't mean that we don't consider the repatriation process, correct? what could we still do? so think about talking, but we're open. the humbled for them is a place that is evolving using too often just some things will continue to change here and why not give these people a voice and go to misuse. an understanding the home board for them is giving a voice to many in the debate by the restitution, but not yet to the descendants of african slaves. that is about to change the world. but it's not just of black white divide. we had now to the finals of finland with the thousands of use, the annual rain, the migration cycle shapes the lives of the saw me nomads. today,

they one of the last indigenous peoples in europe. but climate change is transforming the landscape on which the herds depend. mining companies are also competing for the natural resources under the permafrost ends, new railway lines, and cutting of randy rhodes. the saw me a struggling to preserve their way of life, language and culture. we are fighting. we apply thing at the moment. for all a saw me parliament act. we are fighting the magical northern lights were traditionally seen by the saw me as a dock on and sent from their ancestors. but today they use the fascination of the overall to promote the annual film festival. the scott mug about it's held in the finished village of inquiry

for the past 25 use. the 7 saw me communities here have screened films showcasing the history the saw me way of life was almost wiped out completely on more than one occasion. whether it was through the takeover of the land force christianize ation russian annexations language bands or pressured to assimilate. but since the middle of the 20th century resistance amongst the somebody has grown, there is a determination to preserve the culture long or uncle as he to the he is in that is some is a tiny language. there are only about 404-0450 people who speak this language. so it's been a huge thing to realize that anything you do in such a small language has

a huge impact. the see the museum in energy showcase is a collection of semi artifact, but many of them can only be viewed on computer screens. that's because the original was a scatter, the museums all over the world. this sherman's drum is that a museum in germany. many drums were destroyed by the christian priests. archaeologists took all the treasures from an island in lake erie that was sacred to the summit. so the evans from prison found a silver head band here. it is now returned from oxford to energy, but ownership has still not been transferred to the summit. we call it the 1st symbolic repeat creation of that the cedar museum had, and it is in the museum as a long time load. many, most of the cultural artifacts can be found in billions,

museum of european cultures. the museum has now started a research project with the saw me to study the cultural treasures together around $1600.00 objects and models, photos, and paintings to be sifted through over the next few years. did so when, when for both sides. if christina, new land control on the wealth of some of the exhibits for her post doctoral research at the same time, she's an ambassador for a culture that few in europe's museums know much about stuff on that. but i'm convinced that many museums are not fully aware of everything in their collections. i need to sign on something. and it's the same for me, especially when it comes to exhibits where the culture is so different from our own home decided like sell me culture, which is so old that we're just not familiar with like just or i set up on

a lot of things. but that's not enough, as if it is, i'm really isn't about as a high space. protective suits are a must in the museum storage. that's because many of the objects have been treated with pesticides. they wouldn't have survived all these years otherwise. now every single pace has to go through a detox. the researches find a number of sacred objects in the collection. so based on the left here have been sacrificed given as a gift to the natures they come from the email, the area and it was a place where you would give gifts to this under god. i don't want to touch them if it's not necessary. it's very touching to think that they are here in berlin, and it would probably be good if they could be returned. the museum agrees that the time of the com, of these different points or so with the depression,

cultural heritage foundation is open to the idea of restitution. the can we need to work with this? tell me, and we are taking a 1st step by studying the provenance of the stomach collection. that's why ava christina new lender is here to look through everything on the album, shine named. it's very, this is very interested in being the cedar museum back in, in already is in the process of organizing and putting on display the finished national museums. sony collection, which was returned from helsinki 2 years ago. this fight to preserve, they called true heritage also highlights the role of women in some a culture. here are the effects and not repack created. for example, the re max creative petition damage the shape of the women's traditional whole and cab underlined the strong position in society. so we came that also like your cost data is $16.00 bird for fair daily and uh, yeah,

i think it's wonderful how we say that that the re match. we have some starts from where the petri ation does not reach the priests. said that the demo lives in this protrusion and the priest used to burn them. of course today to the refers to my to the article is the most so it, it to kind of list up the role of indigenous women in this case. i'm a woman. as a caretaker of, of the society is christina newland joined forces with autism otp scheme to express use of research through the medium of contemporary art. the exhibition that the cedar museum looks at the hot. there's something wrong with pride by previous generations of women. the exhibition is an appeal to all the saw me to reclaim the heritage

but when it comes to the restitution of cultural assets, seemingly irreconcilable differences exist even between members of the european union. since the end of world war 2, the polish city of cracow has held the so called bellanca collection. it comprises many outstanding works of the german language, including henry's and manuscripts from good to the green brothers dictionary. frederick sheila's ducks real faces, beethovens and symphony and drawings by alex on the phone. humboldt, what is the item our position and the position of the german government is that there are of course, the legal property of the prussian cultural heritage foundation in this in this. but the germans did terrible things in poland to pull in. and when you think about that history and then start talking about prostitution, can you get a not in your throat for at least i do in high, it's a muslim garbage placed since 1989 german researches who hold

a ph. d can look at the menu scripts stored at the yag alone in library in krakow. but even now in 2023 german television still can't get permission to film here. it's politically too sensitive, we were told of the record that the link is odyssey began in 1941 when the most valuable books and manuscripts were moved from the oppression state library and the event to protect them from the steadily worsening air raids, they were taken further east to the huge costs of the 1st and stein was shown as it's known and polish. she was thought that the building code would be safe. i so often got a known thing whole. so from 1941 beginning in may i. they started transporting cultural treasures here from berlin, buried so thoughtful deal. there were supposedly 505 boxes, but some say it was 6105 boxes. the bottom 6 conduct since the spend

but at the end of the war, a few paintings of pressure and kings brought here from braswell was all that remained of the vast treasure drive. the boxes in the hole, ways containing the famous manuscripts had disappeared. in my notes and when the as late as may 1945 polish researchers looked for various cultural assets. here they just sent everything to cracow and talked to the ag alone in library. so the university library and cracow will take us and do any of us today to be taken care of. but after arriving in cracow, they officially disappeared without a trace. for many decades defined hypo steel, it was a very sensitive issue in poland, them and they knew exactly how valuable the collection was, how but until the 1970s, no one was allowed to talk about it at all. if it is,

i'm going to state a surprising me. it was east german communist leader eric konica, who started exciting pressure on the polish government. as a result, some books and a manuscript from mozart, what cost to east germany. but then in the mid 19 eighties published, president general jose else put a stop to the process and going to look at this one. so that was a turning point toward this. and there was a commission of polish historians and legal experts. and that concluded the collection should belong to paula. important, it's important. get hundreds of hopes for return of the building car did not resurfaced until off to german reunification when get hugged, screwed up promised germany support to poland rapidly joining the youth in return. a bible translated by martin luther from $1522.00 was returned to bill and i stopped by employee to the point to where there was a project where both sides were supposed to return each other's cultural assets.

once it's picked up slot, it didn't work because germany didn't return many polish assets pointing this site to a good product and gave them fair. i mean, do you have any examples to escape? first in the middle, there were various paintings from renaissance artists that were stored in munich, mention some in hamburg. so they were spread around work as a human 1st prize. then last year you always loved kitchen, steve. the leader of poland is governing law and justice potty. and now it's to, poland would say 1.3 trillion euros in more time. reparations from germany. clearly not a good time to getting the link of returned within your code unit. they're not just about reparations. it's about settling a model that's no longer astonishment guessing. we must forget that an estimated 70 to 75 percent of poland is cultural. heritage was destroyed the whole thing and that was no coincidence. and so there was a real intention to inoculate polish culture going to quit to it for,

for ignition the wrongs of the past continue to cloud, the presence one consolation for germany, at least some of the menu scripts and now available in digital form, including the original of beethoven's eights infinity and friedrich schiller's medical faces the sketches for an adult to south america, expedition are also available. but what about the originals? where they have a return to building? it's not on the agenda right now. it's the collection will very likely remain in poland. from a political viewpoint, there's nothing more that can be done next. now the, even in this age of digitalization, the whole debate of a restitution shows that it is absolutely about the originals,

the or the symbolic value. and the respects for the original loan of a spiritual leader from cameron took a 12 hour flight to boom in last year to visit the original sculpture of these people's mythical founding goddess. on the phone of the song, people went to the building and humbled for him to see the in going. so if you go for the very 1st time, it's been in germany for a 120 years in the eyes of the phone, the and gone. so is a spiritual being the end for the 1st time in a 120 years. she was hearing the voice of a priest. he brought water and vegetation from his homeland to revive, to this ritual, also included a royal spokesman who inhaled and then verbalized the words of the funds to

complete shows that he, he will not change his hon. touch can go in so no, but we will do it when going. so finally, allies in so a palace which is the iphone, this initial one. so 2 months later, outside the national museum of you, i one day the capital of cameron the fund received. so it is for traditional celebration known as the toy fund, the, the impending return of being gone. so was the subject on everyone's minds here. and on stage 2, the message to bowman was clear, the so people awaiting, they wanted to know when will the mother of the nation finally returns cameron?

the to hammer that message on the phone even broke with royal protocol and gave an impromptu interview. he said he couldn't understand why the in gone so is still in berlin of the as much as this is for the length of time that going. so it has been a week. many things have happened in the line due to the absolutely. so going, so because it had disrupted this peach while it see on the, on the people his 5 is was, but it's when we jump to can the kids, he's father, she's people. and then one of the consequences, which she would like to people to know is the device to think if it's of the out of

a phone practices on his lot, having some good news that we did return on going. so certainly some piece will come for 6 years, roy has been raging in the land of this so largely forgotten by the outside world. a devastating standoff between cameron's english speaking minority and the frank assigned majority. thousands of so have had to leave the homeland moving to neighboring regions for the capital. one day cities desperately over crowded. sorry, phil make is sylvie jabante was one of those forced to flee. her film school had to close because of the civil war. she has worked hard to have the and gone, so return to come over and it was a social media campaign bring back and gone. so that got everything moving

you know, i at come to the understanding of home gonzales and so is today and i was really very angry. so the address, let us, they went to the gym on presidente, who has been around 20082010. so i said to myself that these crimes were committed in public and they were proud of it in today just to a holding that mentality, that mindset reactions. so why not talk about it as well in public? also, you know, influence public opinion to also let those who don't know, understand the impact of colonialism. and i, i must say that the social media company and really pushed for things to happen. was it the pressure of that campaign that finally caused 1000000000 to rethink its position on the in guns? so oh, sylvie, to bodies cuss no trips to germany as an official restitution commission appointed by the phone. either way, in the end,

the official decision was taken to return to england. so to cameron, the pressure and cultural heritage foundation that was holding the statute relented see how much equity at bottom they explained to us why this figure is so important to them. and then i can show, and then it was quite clear to us that we wanted to return it and that we should return it again. but we've always said that for us there are 2 types of restitution for 2 reasons for returning items. what's in the a, it's a 1st way going to get the items were taken in a clear context of injustice, extortion, or robbery, then good talking to a north american. and secondly, if we notice in the dialogue that certain objects often of original nature have key significance for the identity of the countries and societies of origin. rhetoric, configuring and detailed tom. i remember when he was handing over the decision to return during the process of reading this letter he, he really went for emotional and i think that there is progress. having to

understand that irrespective of the institutions we were present, we a human beings in the in cameroon, has now pledge to prepare a safe and appropriate home for the and gone. so by december 2023, the snake headed museum of form bon in a region neighboring the so homeland is currently under consideration to use germany was unwilling to return cultural artifacts. the times have changed and a new process has been set in motion the . the,

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