Artifacts from that country are still held in german newseum including the remains of people who had been brutally dehumanised. The remains of people into objects through the boiling of corpses down to bone at the side of the grave of the stuffing of the corpse into a battle of salt in the history of museum collecting indigenous people. Are turned into objects through serialization and quest if acacia. The pain left by this violence is omnipresent in many african cultures peoples ancestors live on and that means their remains do as well because in the back is complicated there are 7000 museums in germany and most of the exhibits from the colonial era have no documentation to even extend human use e ms have the federal government sitting at the table with its usually museums where the federal states are involved so there isnt one Single National museum as there often are in african countries but rather a greater diversity of museums unified while restitution of human remains is moving a
Hello on a very warm welcome to news from the world of arts and culture coming up in the next quarter of an hour. Germany and its former colonies are cooperating on the return of looted up from colonial times. Talk of Climate Change is on all our lives and the Frankfurt Book Fair Climate Fiction is booming. And well be strutting down the paris catwalks to see all the latest oarsmen winter fashion trends. In recent years theres been a lot of talk about former colonial powers returning cultural jams mostly taken from africa they were looted in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century in germanys case were talking about thousands of objects currently in german museums that were mostly taken from namibia which was
a German Colony until 915 the namibians want what they rightly consider as return and this week germany has created a Central Office to deal with the restitution of such cultural abbots assets not only for the maybe but it is then that the wounds of the colonial rule of the
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