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
to leave and we hold museum as them and we have kept them posted yes and some communities i think give us bark so that they can go so that we can have peace because we are having problems if you do we need to be colonized and it is our problem if we want them to keep them in the forest or what would be good but of them it is all. ringback the german. military stole a bible and a whip from henrik maybe as national hero there restitution linden museum in early 2900 sparked the debate over whether exhibits are absolutely necessary to define a museum. which is what we think that it s important we give to our children for the future so it s a so is it up to it or is it a story than in the museum doesn t have the bible and the whip but it has an incredible amount of stories of controversy. that tells a lot about how human beings who are. museum conversations are deliberately being