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mia. i feel like helen and diamond to talk to so that figure we have to understand a new mentality was that while we were in control, we've got guns, we can take what we want. i mean it's a great to just meet because taking up to someone, someone with. ready in the music and with taking advantage of what we did not know, but eventually we're going to be clear whatever is out there used to be effective or not. can people live disposition of their land and the 5th of the wealth of african people, the logic to it was that we will listen to bring them back. after facts,

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you can find it on any of the social media handles on the screen. this week we come to you from south africa's eating history museum into 100. it should showcase the rich cost of both this country and the continent. but instead of gracing these show some of the museums most important artifacts on display museum in western countries . they say a diamond is a gold best friend, but far from being a friend, one of the world's most famous diamonds has caused nothing but heartache anguish, and it repairable loss to its home town. the story begins back in january 19 o 5. when a glitch in the ground turned out to be the biggest rock uncut diamond the world had ever seen. it was not far from here in a town called collin michel property. at the time the mine belonged to a european businessman and the diamond was put on sale in london and eventually gifted to king edward the 7. today cause to return the diamonds have become

a national debate. voices are becoming louder. one of them is the economic freedom fighters, a south african opposition political party that is always been vocal in fighting against colonial atrocities. and 4 with relations and the return of african antiquities city think that western influence has had on a positive impact on the continent or elevated africa in any way. look, listed influence in african continent has not been positive in terms of if you look at the deep seated problems that have happened. i mean, the western society entered africa with the presumption that it is a pity, a culturally socially chron. i'm tied in political and it was on that basis that they rationalized to abuse that the effected on african people, the disposition of their land. and the theft of the wealth of african people in the logic to it was that we were less than human beings. so the influences premise

don't us not being worthy of being within. so called betty as a categories of humans. we did not to produce so farm on land and by just paid to the capital it proven konami. we did not encroach land with their fences would not do certain things in western ways. and therefore that made us list increments. so there is no with an influence that is a positive in terms of the life of african people. and do you think that post colonial atrocities should patch just be forgotten and we move on from there to can be forgotten. because if you look at the condition that people live in today, they stem from what happened during colonialism. so you can say we must forget, but continue to determine the life of people today. can forget that we were pleased in specific faces in terms of land which result in us living in checks and can forget that we've been excluded from formally education deliberately. so therefore, now we clinical, anticipating the corporate sector, sophisticated forms of economic organizer because it's deliberate and the

development of our people. so, to see, must get that without progressing all of the impacts of colonialism is illogical. so it can be forgotten until the tedious changes, amid 12 people, reparations are paid and we ensure that we are able to compete at the same level as those of colonized. speaking about the valuables that have been taken care from africa. of course you have the color and diamond which today's part of the crown jewels. what is your party's policy on that? look, we feel that the denoted was shown by the british monarchy for that trust is impacted on african people across the continent. and even in other lands for indigenous people in india and their medical and arrogance is patricia williams still keeping the counsel which was stolen from certificate, still keeping a lot of gold, which has stolen from the african continent and other mineral wealth. so there is a lack of remorse for them to not be able to attend those basic things that we know . it was a folklore that still remains that they have their communions has head after

defeating him. so there's a lot that needs to be done in terms of reparation. didn't cruise at a 10 moment. it was an artifacts that belong to. can people have indigenous people all over the world? have you had any response to your claims? because below to sponsor to that, we saw that prince charles made it general marker before leading up to the funeral of elizabeth. seeing that we have a complex history with africa was no concern. has said that there's been a 1st is committed the person at a particular level. we continue to have an impact on our people and that these to me, this as well as built on the blacks with african fleets. so there's been noticed was besides vague statements that directly implicate to participate in the crimes that they very well know they've committed. how do you think, bringing back the diamond will actually help south africa look, a symbolic he could be assigned to the most by the british monica, but also with a lot of money. it could contribute to small scale development in the life of african people had,

could show that relation to being totally rebuilt between those colonized us and those were colonized in congress. so i think the impact would be much more symbolical than anything else. but the kennedy, some monetary value to the turnover that diamond could be used to elevate the student dead. and so the kid could be used called housing and certain areas or improve. i want to infrastructure, energy, different structure, so much could be done with it. but as symbolically, it would be a step in the right direction of reversing one of those times. i want to key the town of collin is today a far cry from the palaces of the united kingdom wait. it has found a tone as part of the jewel. it's a prime example of how the waste treated africa as a playground. or should i say tricia hunt. we visited the birthplace of this controversial find. return our stolen dining. that's what lake elizabeth did prompted many africans to demand. and it's yeah. with the volt,

biggest and diamond which forms part of the british one of the keys collection was found. although this is something that the kind of in town should celebrate. it has but nothing, but tears and anger. the tongue continues to languish and slams. while the british royal house was stolen, billions on top of the heads and coding them. and mine is just a mine that we know that this doing nothing at all and doing a little in fact, because of is things that are not giving in the hope. and she said to this community as a little, i know. and for the fact that the one that we are the mind that we're talking about, that has produced one of the biggest demons in the world. but the community is still suffering even to do so. remember blinks, where, where, where we are the ones where we can go and joining your, your eyes and you know,

doing those. yes. so yes. what was, will always leave whatever the blacks out working with their own bad don't always lived. so no, i mean has discovered that, but again, you must remember that most of the mining industry or specifically the time and industry has killed that market for us to even cut did here locally. so bring it to bring a big for what it is still gonna come back here to say no, it's back then take it back to england to cut it you process to do their jewelry and whatever. then if doesn't room to be well as i wish to live when that day comes. but the diamond one comes back. but the only thing that the mine that

can do here is to develop this area, develop its people socially and otherwise take them to school. because we let lots of things here. we spoke to cas bishop, an independent media janice in the united kingdom and got his coming. me christian, welcome to african new sch can. ringback shaley cast a little bit of a history of how western countries have been stealing from africa. well, what i can say is a lot of it has gone on in the last century. i'm from where your city in janice, going to the mediterranean sea. however, artifacts are precious stones. they were precious pieces of art that were just i guess we are going to stand the colonial men mentality was that? well, we're, we're in control, we've got guns. we can say what we want to know on is that to say otherwise and, and in that time, in the last say, 150 years before the continent to independence

there's, there's a lot of stuff taken again with almost with impunity, but the color diamond was little bit more complicated the map, but essentially you'd have to argue that it was kind of the same way nobody, kellen and diamond eventually end up in the united kingdom. they decided the, the then now minority governments inside that goes out to give it, to the british government. believe it or not, to heal the wounds of the anglo boy war. which ended the turn of the century. but this is in 19 o 7 as i right. when you think about it, i mean, your country is devastated by warm and you're giving somebody to somebody else to deal with the victors, the lose of this. but anyway, and so they got this diamond from the story behind it in the fact that they said they were going to send it by ship to england. and essentially,

what happened was they, they used the ship as a decoy. actually the, there was nothing on the ship and they sent the color diamond by a parcel post. imagine royal mail. if it can boil family with support when they getting the government back. is example for you. i know this your history. but during the war, out of it on a plan to take nelson's column in london and take it down and rebuild it as a trophy. or if that happened, i'm years later, you know, the war was over. friends again, you know, will never be great to go out. lloyd nelson back up and where he was before and i just like, you know, that's part of our heritage and i can see it same way. i mean, i can see why, but, but again, my, my thing about it is, yeah, it's

a quick fix when i just there, i mean, it's not like the roll from the short money is not like, you know, they're going to miss it. they got plenty of gems and some of the queens private election they went on by the state and sent it back. but again, i, i myself, i would say ok, let's make something of it. let's make it a tourist attraction. let's make it into a way in which people get money out of it. and why are which people can create wealth around otherwise? was it do it in a glass case in another country is and she can it again to get the diamond back? what do you think whether or not they're going to go back to abilene? i don't know. it's a very complicated situation. i mean, one would have thought in the car climb up to the royal family is not sure. diamonds and jewels, although i would say okay, there you are back. i think that in some ways it's

very sensitive and to the role from them. if you look at it, when the queen died and charles was as shaken as a people, and i saw this bit of television and some guy said, you're spending millions on your mother's funeral of our money. and here we are. we're struggling to pay our bills and our electricity bills, which is true. but avoid in jose. oh my gosh, you know, go way when is that? yeah, i mean the road harmony is live on another level and not perhaps not as a sensitive to the will. people as us, but then again, i mean, does the getting more or is this debate will never even come up? but yeah, i mean it's, i just think the world's going to grow up sometimes. so. okay. all right, let's it right you, this is your, i mean as simple as it would be. we'd have to, there's libra, i don't, they, the sector in the crime. and the guy with security is america, and it's

a damn bill is not like rocket science. i think united kingdom is guilty not only for taking the color in diamond recently if attorney is involved when we're skulls, that western colonialists took us trophies during the colonial laws. we travel now to neighboring some bob way, way, although many are happy with the return of a scholar. it doesn't change history behind me is this take you off as in bob was famous liberation, war hero, known as we are now. honda also remains are also believed to have been taken by the british and are set to be returned back to the country with the remaining skulls. zimbabwe is preparing for the return of a worry as cow that were taken as trophies during deliberations struggle against the british colonial rule and development that has led the whole country into jubilation. these are our heroes. we can be happy here after

independence. when we have the remains of cornish nor heroes remaining outside the country, we won them, wrote their home and given a decent area, because already we know that there they are. 11 remains for national heroes that had now been identified. well no, not bad name, but they said that they are offering bobby in origin. it keeps us reminded that we once com. good bye. do i simpler for you? and if it that we are not independent here without those remains the next us appear like we haven't committed before, jim. but it's not all about bringing back some of that about taking down who are the people that we want to put there on statues that they have accomplished something yet in namibia. think about it in terms of that. instead of everybody

getting angry, ok, find the statue as we move, the statue is gone. we don't need the statue. they, we can make way for something out there, but i mean, we know it's not to get upset for the stature. that's been the move. how i feel about it is, i personally feel like the stage of good from the french was supposed to be taken down. we, we back in independence when we became independence. 9092. we in still in the powers of the minority in the people that suffered a career for friendship. so i, i can see that point of view and you know, if it gets removed, it would probably go somewhere where we go to view history. like on like a museum, we should still lever a place to, for people to sailors, to see what the past was. people to know those characters were and so on. so i can, i can understand that from that point of view, i just don't think it's a good idea to try and hide your history or trying to move it to trying to reshape things. yes, it is a blessing to see that of the 120 years it use the some kind of believing,

hoping restored, you know, people for the state is being removed. it's a very big, big move for the people of the country. they feel the trauma in the paid. yes, the suffering in the page now they're going to be removed by the keys. this is one step closer to justice in to piece into unity into print the color. i ration, the culture. the discussion of repatriation is not just about objects also about the people they are suffering and the right to an identity. mother public debate is mostly focused and african auto optics. tell only half the story. the continued suffering of african people called the rich the says lead to the strong need for name changes like on the country road. i'm standing currently and it's like is say mistreat formerly known as sol, with st. then your name on is a leading figure in deliberation history off. so africa guy is like his name was

the founding member of the african national congress, the agency, and he later served as president general of the organization. the street is also home to lou to the house, the agencies, the headquarters. we had the studio of africa historian and south african sculptor, a t cut and truly, to gain more insight on his use of stolen african antiquity. for many is western countries and they history books have portrayed africans as uncivilized and an educated people. yet they still still are valuables. i twigs and ideas. i'm with african sculpture, p, pick unduly, so whom the 5 to get these odd pieces back to africa is real. it catches the very core of his work. has any of the work been stolen by western countries and i had to in some pieces, it was stolen air when i was in swaziland and even when i was up in the u.

k. i think about twice where the paintings and the drone in the just kind of frame disappeared. but i was flattered that somebody loved my wife. how would you feel if it had been and your art was sitting in western museums? yeah, i think the one of the most kind of a very painful of these how a work of art is born. the 10 oil is the struggles. the juggling that takes place in some will is mind in order to produce a work of art. and after all of that struggle in all that power, yo, it benefits of somebody else who says about one of the most coolest things that can be visited upon a talented person or even an ordinary person. and why do you feel western countries are still holding on to these treasures? there was a hold on to this ambiguity because they, i, with

a lot of money and to their vertically a, you know, works of art. and they know that as long as the human race exist there, those pieces are going to play a very vital in the road or for you to tracing us and keeping us, you know, in line in terms of where the, the things we are capable of doing and what measures do you think africans have taken to get our valuables back? i'm do you think we ever wall? i think a, i was visually the 7 kansas and in losing a some of the things. because the very in the teams will that ablaze are beginning to raise questions about their countries in theft. i think grade really not all of the wes would be the tend of course, but a lot of works would be a, you know, to attend. but the politics of art and the politics of for nationally,

teams in asia stated to live, remember in late to 77, when all african countries held 1st act, the festival of ads in culture. all of them, not even any west in or 5 eastern media area in the attendant that they needed one the symbol of the india mosque. i voted my schooner from nigeria that pretended that we would like to have that as our sign of uni g o lead to us. then if you don't, the even refused to loan that thing for symbolically these works. a powerful politically and a drudge western countries portrayed africans as uncivilized, an uneducated people in history books. what do you make of that? i think further crystal can only be answered by a poet that you care with. down see was late now. who said they gave you

what they can no longer hold, right? people are invited to a party, they eat your stomach 1st and then your memory. that's what colonial resume is really done. so people like those are not going to give you something unless they no longer a, you know, need it. and why is african art so special as an african artist yourself? what message are you trying to convey through your art and sculpting in my own? it has got to do is, you know, spirits are going to do is going to try to g. you can do with a, a know my life as a political in the animal was meant for an early death, but to man is to, in a, to survive. it is more concerned the one that won the global, you know, finance awards. it also got to do with bones and, and beads. it's more about the issue of an equal world because african cultures,

eco viable wells that you have been created. that is why, when a child is born, you don't even cut the umbilical cord. you wait for it to drop and then you're going to bury that beautiful cotton planted tree to link a child you know to the tree. i am so b, c of the mother of the hyena. i'm cro where mom, mom, mom, but sneak in a saw that whoever attacks them august, never the hyena, it's a, i'm a conservationist. it all our problem to her to change that to tom. well, you don't produce the reverse. everything is about a call in a viability. that's what our contract is. that's what the my at, in a seems to be a i wanted to address. the scramble for africa and its resources over the past, centuries had left a trail of devastation in its wake. from planet minerals to stolen artifacts, the voices from the continent are determined to be heard. what that brings us to

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