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Africa: Germany Offers to Return 1,000 Human Skulls to Former East African Colonies
RFI, 21 January 2023
Berlin's museum authority announced this week that it was ready to return hundreds of human skulls from the former colony of German East Africa, after studying the remains to… Read more »
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Africa: Africa Revives Push for Colonial-Era Reparations
DW, 4 August 2022
In a joint initiative, African countries are renewing their efforts to obtain reparations from European countries for the transatlantic slave trade and other colonial-era wrongs… Read more »
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Africa: Continent Revives Push for Reparations for Colonial-Era Wrongs
DW, 4 August 2022
There is a renewed campaign by African countries for reparations to be paid by European countries for the transatlantic slave trade and other colonial-era wrongs committed… Read more »
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Kenya: Nandi Seek Koitalel Samoei's Skull, Artefacts
Nation, 19 October 2021
A petition for the British to return the skull of legendary Nandi leader Koitalel Samoei and the quest for Sh20 billion compensation for atrocities committed when colonialists… Read more »
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Rwanda: Belgium, Germany to Return Cultural Treasures to Rwanda
New Times, 2 June 2021
Former colonial masters, Belgium and Germany, are willing to return to Rwanda cultural heritage unlawfully held and preserved for years, Amb. Robert Masozera, Director-General of… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Britain Denies Having Nehanda's Skull
New Zimbabwe, 29 May 2021
THE Natural History Museum in London, which has an extensive collection of artefacts, says it does not have First Chimurenga heroine Ambuya Nehanda’s skull as constantly… Read more »
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Rwanda: France's Macron Seeks Forgiveness Over Rwandan Genocide
Tunis Afrique Presse, 28 May 2021
French President Emmanuel Macron said he recognised his country's role in the Rwandan genocide and hoped for forgiveness at a memorial in Kigali on Thursday, seeking to reset… Read more »
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Namibia: 'We Will Ask Namibia ... For Forgiveness'
RFI, 28 May 2021
Germany has apologised for its role in slaughter of Herero and Nama tribespeople in Namibia more than a century ago and officially recognised the massacre as genocide for the first… Read more »
Germany Offers to Return Skulls to Former East African Colonies
Berlin's museum authority has announced that it was ready to return hundreds of human skulls from the former colony of German East Africa, after studying the remains to establish to which present-day countries they belong, writes Radio France Internationale.
German East Africa, established in the 1880s and broken up after the end of World War I in 1918, included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, mainland Tanzania and part of Mozambique.
In recent years some European nations that played key roles in colonial crimes and have hesitantly tendered an apology for their actions, wrote Isaac Kaledzi for Deutsche Welle. In 2022, Germany agreed to pay Namibia €1.1 billion (U.S.$1.3 billion) in reparation for genocide committed during its colonial-era occupation of the country.
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa has vowed that his government would "repatriate Mbuya Nehanda's skull and the skulls of others from the UK", and said discussions about this were "on ... Read more »
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The Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism has confirmed that the government is considering bringing back the skull of Chief Songea from Germany. Chief Songea was ... Read more »
A map showing colonies in East Africa in the early 20th century (Image from page 220 of "The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others" (1919).
