German anthropologists used Germany's colonial conquest in Africa to promulgate racist theory, and create racial hierarchies. While popular at the time, scientific racism became a justification for widespread oppression.
Restitution In Focus As Africa Takes Berlin Fest Spotlight barrons.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from barrons.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Restitution in focus as Africa takes Berlin fest spotlight - Screens - Arts & Culture ahram.org.eg - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ahram.org.eg Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
African cinema has seized the spotlight at this week's Berlin film festival, probing contemporary realities while demanding attention to historical crimes.And it profiles a contemporary movement in Berlin fighting to expand Germany's vaunted culture of historical atonement beyond the Nazi period to encompass colonial-era crimes in Africa.