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Fitting end, it makes more sense to donate money to get people out of Slavery in sudan than to give money to return some random rock someone picked up at the Kilimandscharo.

It sounds very tempting to give all these artifacts to the african countries and let them squabbel about who owns them. Then it would be no longer our problem, Albeit I doubt it will stop there, it is probably going to be even more blaming Europe.

Frank Franz, a guy from the NPD (Heimat) straight up confirmed that this Scafidis woman thinks völkisch just like he does. He is an ethnopluralist and both he and she both believe in a Volksoul, which is the primary source of an identity of a Volk, only who carries it can understand, live, develop and authentically embody the culture of a Volk. The descendents today get biollogcially connected to their ancestors.

He has a point, those postcolonialists are at a problem. If they apply their own rules evenly, then they must act the way they allegedly despise because they treat african societies with their own rules, which they do anyway or have to treat history with all of its nuances without all the guilt tripping.

And originally the child of an owner with his concubine was the owner's property, later on the German empire managed some concessions: children of house slaves should be halffree and their children should be free.

The duala had 6 terms for slaves depending on social rank and origin. The most important one was mukom (a slave bought and born in Duala) and mukoma (a war prisoner), the latter was of higher status and more likely to be sacrificed or sold into the atlantic slave trade because he was harder to keep subservient. And most slaves lived in seperate areas in a koto (an enclosure). And female slaves were often concubines.

So the germans broke the deal with the Duala. figures.

Looks like these two Kamerunians were quite well liked. And funny, these people back then did not look at skin color but modern progressives demand exactly that.

Oh, so when the natives of Papua Neuguinea sold these items to the germans they had already become worthless after the ceremonies anyway so restitution makes no sense. They only have historical value for some of the native artists now to see how it was done back then.

So the hamburg museum's leader doesn't like the words Volk and ethnicity but likes using the term ethnography, that is just hypocritical.

Holy shit these definitions of colonialism are so vague, that could be anything and everything and yet they only apply it to europeans. are these austrians so gungho on wanting to be guilty? And boy are they self-centered.

So despite Austria having no colonial history, this museum wants it to be guilty anyway and they justify it by claiming a country looking out for its economy and sending explorers is already colonial? And Franz Ferdinand's world tour somehow is also despite him paying for everything he got and while looking down on some people he praised e.g. Australian aborigines for their struggle against white settlers.

Of course the museum in Vienna talks about camels in regard to european colonialism but not their role in innerafrican slavery.

That really sounds more like they want german guilt and political capital than anything else.

learning about an african slave trading king who also personally taught boys and girls? In the Berlin Museum? No way, far too complicated for them.

Oh, so the throne in question is considered a gift in the land of origin, a voluntary one, and not a theft like stated here.

So in Bamun the descendents of slaves were still massively discriminated in the 1950s? And in 1902 when the germans arrived, the sultan collaborated with them from the start. Naturally the berlin museum will not tell you about that.

So according to him, the visitor numbers of the Grassi museum in Leipzig halved in the time this woman lead it and since the numbers went down even further in 2024 even though entry is free now, I think it suggests that the Covid pandemic is not the only reason for it.

I imagine that this musical ethnologist did not like it that the andaman prince provided no claims about illegal acquisitions of german artifacts and the prince would only like them back because a storm destroyed so many in his home country.

Oh, so these suhali men were the slaves of the Arabs... funny

so in Leipzig you basically see less and less Benin artificats with no historical information and the only information you get is in the room for the guy who collected them and only to basically bash the guy as a colonialist? That sucks

I really wonder if this woman from the Leipzig museum would have gone along with the "no women allowed" rule if the people in question weren't australian aborigines or if she would have been fine to "take culture into account" if some christian came along and claimed there could be human souls in these stones.

If my information is correct then Ethiopian identity cards no longer show the ethnicity, but they did until 2018. So his information seems outdated here, albeit the quotes about tribalism might be correct. And I have to look up the guy that he quotes here.

I don't know what this Fanon guy he mentioned wrote, but Satre really sounds unhinged in his support of violence. I get it, it was during the French-Algerian War, but what would happen if someone uses that today? And he straight up portrayed the "colonized" in such a ridiculous degree that he himself seems basically racist. He even claims slavery and racism are purely "white" inventions. Which sounds very familiar.

So that one nigerian guy claimed, despite historical evidence, that Benin never had human sacrifices but only executions of criminals, and the boss of the Leipzig museum doesn't care, plus when nigeria doesn't like what is stated in German museums, then this stuff will not be shown there. That is a recipee for lying.

Oh, so those bronces were used for human sacrifices and other relics show the same. And apparently in Benin there was a market by the locals to sell relics to the brits and others. Most Benin artifacts are legally purchased.

So does the Benin king still have a Harem? And what sort of blood did actually stick to the Benin Bronces?

oh, so the black guy on the picture at Hallesches Tor was also a political activist and the man named Luschan at one time was pretty racist toward that guy (clalled Martin Diobe) but a few years later claimed westernization would be a poison to african culture and destroy it. Odd.

yeah, world history is complicated, but not as sexy as claiming german colonialism had nothing to do with the abolishing of slavery.