the bronzers are legacy of colonial conquest french historian benedict savoie is one of the most important voices when it comes to blooded art her research has revealed that for decades museums have deliberately covered up the provenance of their collections and hindered investigations in christian thinking it's obvious that museum directors tried to put off having to take action before they retired and simply passed the problem on to the next generation which has us now it's clear that we cannot and must not burden the next generation with this we have to act in this london there are still no definitive decisions but a general tendency is becoming clear in germany calls for restitution of the bending bronzers are growing louder both within the public and among politicians as here in africa when we were in africa the culture minister of the republic of binny and said he didn't think there would ever be any restitution and if it did happen it would be as important as the fall of the berlin wall and i think we've reached a kind of cultural fall of the wall. canadian film star elliot page mad