Comment | 'Humboldt Forum must have a clear policy that only objects of proper provenance can be used'

In a performative work at the Humboldt Forum last year, Sorry for Nothing, the German Ghanaian artist Philip Kojo Metz (right) inaugurated an invisible sculpture to the museum in a rite with Akan people of West Africa
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Africa’s partition and colonisation by European powers was debated and decided on in Berlin at a meeting called by Count Bismarck in 1884. German possessions in Africa included some of the places that were highly negatively impacted by the vices of colonialism, including massacres, genocides and appropriation of resources. Colonialism was about conquest, domination and control through force for purposes of resource extraction— including cultural resources.

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