It's time for African Countries to take advantage of the moment and coordinate a decisive position on the custodianship of Africa art
(Photo: Goethe Institute/ Supplied) A reckoning is happening, a willingness, like none before, for the former colonial powers, both those who sat at the Berlin conference, and those who benefited indirectly, to acknowledge the past, what was taken and what needs to be returned. In 2015, Germany made a conditional acknowledgement, a decade after offering an initial apology for the 100 year anniversary of the Namibian Genocide of 1904-1904 , as documented in its own records. The question of reparations remains unsettled. The atrocities committed during this period, in...
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