Victims of German colonialism push country into new reckoning with dark past

(21 Mar 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Berlin, Germany – August 23, 2024
1. Tanzanian activist Mnyaka Sururu Mboro marching with group and new street sign
2. Mnyaka Sururu Mboro and group marching on street
3. Wide of group marching on street
4. Close of African drums getting played
5. People walking by street sign reading (German): “Togo street”

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Berlin, Germany – November 21, 2024
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mnyaka Sururu Mboro, activist from Tanzania:
“I knew since in 1984 that there are some traces of colonialism all over here in Berlin and in Germany. For instance, the names of streets where you find the colonial criminals being glorified, or the so-called pioneers, the founder of the colonies.”

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Berlin, Germany – August 23, 2024
7. Mnyaka Sururu Mboro holding sheet covering new street name
8. New street sign getting unveiled
9. Wide of people at street renaming, applauding and cheering

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Berlin, Germany – November 21, 2024
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mnyaka Sururu Mboro, activist from Tanzania:
“Carl Peters, who was a governor here in Kilimanjaro and he liked to hang people just only most of the time for his joy, seen looking at them, hanging there, and he’s sipping his beer and smoking his pipe.”

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Berlin, Germany – January 8, 2025
11. Close of totem pole
12. Totem pole at playground
13. Founder of Decolonial Tours Justice Mvemba walking
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Justice Mvemba, founder of Decolonial Tours:
“A totem pole usually is a religious symbol yes, spiritual symbol, and coming from Indigenous cultures, from Indigenous peoples, and now the question is, why is the spiritual symbol on a playground? Right? And we would not never see a cross on a playground.”
15. Lion columns
16. Plaque with information about the lion columns, which where part of the colonial warehouse in Berlin
17. Close of plaque with picture of the lion columns at the colonial warehouse
18. Close of lion

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Berlin, Germany – November 14, 2024
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK):
“Look at the school books for history. Colonialism is almost missing, and of course the historical memory of the Germans concerning twentieth century was especially and heavily covered by the Second World War, the Holocaust.”
20. Man at museum taking picture
21. Benin bronzes
22. Wide of man taking pictures of Benin bronzes
23. Close of Benin bronzes

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Berlin, Germany – January 8, 2025
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Justice Mvemba, founder of Decolonial Tours:
“The way these belongings displayed, they are more displayed as trophies and less as really like cultural belongings where people can actually come and learn something about, like the different nations.”

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ARCHIVE: Benin City, Nigeria – August 23, 2022
25. Close of Benin bronze
26. Man creating Benin bronze

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ARCHIVE: Abuja, Nigeria – December 20, 2022
27. Wide of handover of bronzes from German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock to Nigerian officials
28. Close of Benin bronze
29. Baerbock and Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama (center)

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ARCHIVE: Berlin, Germany – June 16, 2023
30. SOUNDBITE (German) Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German President:
“We must ask ourselves critically on whose shoulders Western modernity was built, with what contradictions and injustices and what consequences this has for our world today.”
31. Timelapse of lion column with clouds passing by

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