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"Priceless artefacts removed and looted from African nations during Germany’s
colonial period will be permanently returned, officials said.
The Berlin-based Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which manages the
German capital’s many museums, said on Monday it had entered into negotiations
on the returns of artefacts to Namibia, Tanzania and Cameroon.
Among the artefacts to be returned is a shell-studded statue of the mother
goddess Ngonnso’, which holds great spiritual significance for the Nso’ people
of northwest Cameroon, the foundation said.
The statue has been part of the collection of Berlin’s Ethnological Museum
since 1903, after it was “donated” by a German colonial officer who had taken
it by force from the Nso’.
The board also approved the permanent return of 23 artefacts, including
jewellery, tools and fashion items, to Namibia. The objects, also stolen during
the colonial period from 1884 to 1919, were sent to Namibia last month for
research purposes and will now remain there.
The foundation said its president had also been authorised to sign an agreement
on the return of objects Germany looted from Tanzania during the Maji Maji
Rebellion and other conflicts during its early 20th-century colonial rule."
Via Christoph S.
Cheers,
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