Any describe the government plan as lamentable and said they would only embolden autocratic regimes around the world. The u. S. Has announced plans to ban the chinese and mobile apps to talk and we chat citing National Security concerns downloading apps in the u. S. Will be blocked from sunday a full ban on the use of tik tok could come into effect by mid november experts worry to talks ana could pass on information about the apps u. S. Uses to the chinese government. This is news from berlin you can follow us on twitter and instagram at the news or visit our website at state dot com. On the one hand you had this kind of narrative of european civilization on the exploitation. The question should be what is. It everywhere and its in everything but nobody can really see it her name in. European countries did was civilized admission. Brought back. Brought back. To the black lives matter. Flows european colonialism has been. Centuries of european imperialism still in the modern world but this legacy is often completely missing from political discourse how deeply on our western societies themselves rooted in colonialism. What are the questions we need to be asking for just respond. Images of people under colonial rule objectified by the white. Or the few brushstrokes american artist roger carlos these photos and many others. She paints away the exotic sizing white european view of the world and the way so many in the west see history. I work very fast. And i just lead the images kind of come and often what happens is that theres a kind of funny. And. Pushed back to the image. I mean was bird means girl with a taste for revenge. A woman in india we having claws for a superpower. So it seems islanders united in solidarity. Photographs and by for a repeat in the 19th and 20th centuries to come out of color has been reclaiming them for 20 years she says she 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 thats 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 do how does power work and images. 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. I actually see myself as equal parts. And so for me it was always rooted in this perspective that i am american and its from the lens of being a person of color in the u. S. But also being an american so having this imperial history and legacy as part of my identity and these were always a starting point for me that understand and look and key clue. In history. In the rest of the world. Rush comeau kahlo 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 dissects them and overlays them with new content laden with irony and political commentary. Magic gaskins our futuristic aeronauts and persian dervish as lesser. Its also about the type of representation where people are pictured so that their humanity. 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 theres a similar active rehabilitation based on images of womens 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 make up 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 that original photograph. Her latest project focuses on how the media portrays people who fled their homes compared to more privileged travelers painted on to pages of an expedition report filed by wilfred facet progeny of a British Colonial dynasty. Kind of everything i hate. You. And this is kind of a 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 say what is a what and people listen and then on the other and the other spectrum of this trouble. Is the refugee and the refugee is part whole the job just they are criminalized and they are here. Carlos counters this image with portraits of people looking from the pages of soldiers travel. She uses colonial era photographs to tell stories about oppression. The question should be what is colonialism not rape so its 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. Subjects games out of this world. For me beauty is so important for the protests its about my own sense of empowerment and then also its about giving to the people that are photographed its a kind of redistribution of power. Should be a city in the north of england is with johnny pete screw up. A journalist Television Presenter and photographer his mother was from a white will in time. Family and his father was an African American song musician hits book afro painted 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 theyre violent or you get images of black people or sports stars and smiling or like at festivals or carnivals and having fun and partying but you dont often see the inbetween this of things the banality the everydayness i want to work commute i want to people on the metro. Going going to pick the kids up from school and you get a kind of every day black experience that kind of tries to normalise of an exact size blackness in your. Field of johnny pitts traveled to impress upon to answer tampa live stock i must say he wanted to meet black europeans from the most diverse backgrounds as the son of an African American he experiences Structural Racism 1st hand but he knows that his experiences are different from those of many other black britons. While my dad was brought to this very house you know the neighbors would say ah thats 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 enough to think about British Colonialism so thats a very different experience of course the black community is aware 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 backpacking through the continent i did start to know is a rise in racism and it troubled me and i start to know its a kind of insularity that was 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 notion of blackness that never really fit together properly you know the more i tried the afro solidly on to something the more it fell apart and what is afro paean isnt something that actually exists or is it a construct its definitely a construct i dont want to say exactly what the word if it resonates if you feel like you want something that can explain a kind of. Pull or listen in a single word then you might flock to and thats what happened in very quickly the community emerged around this word and i think thats something the the black community in europe havent had historically in the same way that the Africanamerican Community of fog you know a kind of solidarity in the face of racism different pian interweave stories of the people pits meets on his journey with the history of european colonialism sleight of atrocities what you peons committed on african cities still often shrouded in silence today that if you see genocide perpetrated by imperial german troops a number of people in present day media. Germans often seem to deny or even suppress their history of colonialism was that your question 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 well 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 maimed massacred more than 10000000 congolese. d how did 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 tension 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 mean for you to take responsibility i guess in a political sense where theres a conversation about reparations which im completely on board with i dont see why black communities shouldnt receive money for for. You know the things that create a system that still places that im 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 im criticizing europe when im criticizing this country i want europe to be a better place i want to take part in europe. I want britain to be a better place im fighting for this country but maybe not in the way that people traditionally fought for it which is you know to keep the. Prejudices in place. Johnny ph d. 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 use your opinion use iyam show them today. When we go to those we look at those objects. Its more like a disney vacation thing. I think the institutions and the euro and the whole global north fairly conservative that means they dont want to change. The system of course. Take programs noise museum that holds the famous bust of meffert which attract 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 museums permission. As long as to control not just the physical artifact but also the digital one you you kind of control the narrative around it because then you can decide which research so for 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 efforts one replica now is buried in the egyptian desert as a kind of symbolic restitution. That actually matter when all of your material material objects of the culture are in another country and completely decontextualized and actually got there violently namely through a colonialist and so it totally doesnt matter where the object is who gets to tell the story the Imperial Museum is also a seat the process of the transmission of the museum has become now we gained 70 to tell the story publishing the data set on a Public Domain with an effort but also with other projects thats 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 scrapes 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 theyre not relevant and meaningful than our world and they dont connect to whats going on today whereas i think the objects and their stories too are totally and through this digital what i like to call techno heritage its possible to reappropriate the meaning of representation and. Meaning nor al badri the images have special meaning because they represent the Cultural Heritage of our fathers homeland. Mission is one of the few works that actually have a very biographical component i would say because im half iraqi its a country which i could never visit its a little bit of research for like how did you look like and can be recreate some things without just copying it but generating completely new objects and thats important especially in a region which is nowadays iraq where everything usually is just destroyed and looked at the way a 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 exploited today it is a land grab by Multinational Companies 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. A park torrijos for drug dealing many of the dealers here fled from Subsaharan Africa they lack work permits and prospects badri is planning an event where these men will paddle art drugs. I think its like situation and real time here what we can see. And thats. 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 inequality theyve created. Were. I sort of electronic beat. After a break out. Produced this track in cameroon. Crying all the time. She says women there were treated with more respect before the europeans came. And. You signed up with. Such an impact. They were raising also the culture of the people. In the 21st century. I couldnt swallow my pride trust i try you know you. Brother was 10 when she left cameron 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 thats a small African Child white culture is on the t. V. Everywhere its the norm and suspended so when you know as a 10 year old that youre going to europe its 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 dont teach you about their lives in terms of where the resources come from and how did well come to europe in such an amount it came from their colonies and its really insane to me to be in this world and go to school so many years when a teacher who supposedly about the world youre going to be living in and leave out this huge part of history. When she was 20 also decided to return to cameroon in search of her. It was really researching where im coming from where war my in terms of legacy and her history. And it was really thought also to see that my parents. How little connection to even what was before that. She wanted to establish a musical connection to general welcome home is about cameron and all its strengths and flaws. So 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. Look its how to laser in it was not loud enough you couldnt hold on like. Youre very close. In your. Yeah. Its like when the general the so it didnt match the energy. She changed styles experimented with electronic beats and made sound collages discovering the world anew in the process. And just a mix of the african reality not just with the sickly but. 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 cameron. She no longer feels the need to enlighten germans who blank on their countrys colonial past in germany i have conversation more with people like jimmy dean. In berlin than bala gets a taste of home at this cameroonian restaurant these days her search for identity has faded a bit into the background. Of the mixture of the to make. And that. Which wasnt true but i guess i needed to do that to figure. So at the end of the day create. That mixture in my everyday life i try school because its just very much healthy its a healthy balance. And thats something she hopes to pass on to her daughter. What it is. That important its ok. Not. Enjoying the journey to maybe be closer. So these berlin street names that are a relic of germanys colonial past dont discourage them both she says the future of the streets lies in the hands of the citys black communities. The past can help the future back 21. To. The sound of the alps and now open your eyes. And see the palaces and 10 of your. Welcome to what may be. The most unusual of them to only hear. The high rise concert of the trust in Symphony Orchestra there were plans. To make the examine the 70 per cent. Police brutality in south africa brutal tactics are often used to impose law and order how much it costs to the young people have in the Justice System in. The sunlight of such an innocent life the 77 percent. In 60 minutes to. Bowl more. Closely. Cheerfully. Is soon. To begin. To. Discover. The a. Substantial documentary on. The law but its hard not to get lost in europes largest bamboo whatever it is but little go there anyway to make a tour in the show. Hello welcome to the new edition of the europe x. 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