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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.
German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier has apologised for the colonial-era killings in Tanzania during Germany’s rule. According to Al Jazeera, Steinmeier during a visit to the Maji Maji Museum in the southern Tanzanian city of Songea also vowed to raise awareness of the atrocities in his country, in a step towards “communal healing” of the bloody past. “I would like to ask for forgiveness for what Germans did to your ancestors here.
Steinmeier sought forgiveness from the descendants of hundreds of thousands of victims of violence over a century ago.
A 17-year-old teenager sadly lost his life in Mvuma, Midlands Province, Zimbabwe after being offered a lift by strangers. John Mbano from Chivhu had boarded a Toyota SUV on May 13 with two other passengers, heading to Masvingo. There were already four people inside - three men and a woman. Instead of continuing on to