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

(21 Mar 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Berlin, Germany – August 23, 2024
1. Various of Tanzanian activist Mnyaka Sururu Mboro marching with group and new street sign

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

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Berlin, Germany – August 23, 2024
3. People walking by street sign reading (German): “Togo street”
4. Mnyaka Sururu Mboro holding sheet covering new street name
5. New street sign getting unveiled
6. Wide of people at street renaming, applauding and cheering

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Berlin, Germany – November 21, 2024
7. SOUNDBITE (English), Mnyaka Sururu Mboro, activist from Tanzania:
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“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
8. Various of totem poles at playground
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Justice Mvemba, founder of decolonial Tours:
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“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.”

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ARCHIVE: Berlin, Germany – November 14 , 2014
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10. Man taking pictures of Benin Bronzes ++TOP HALF++

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ARCHIVE: Benin City, Nigeria – August 23, 2022
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11. Man creating Benin Bronze ++LOWER HALF++

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ARCHIVE: Berlin, Germany: November 14, 2024
12. Close of Benin bronze

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Berlin, Germany – January 8, 2025
13.SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Justice Mvemba, founder of decolonial Tours:
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“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
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14. Man creating Benin bronze ++TOP HALF++

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ARCHIVE: Berlin, Germany – November 14 , 2014
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15. Man taking pictures of Benin Bronzes ++LOWER HALF++

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ARCHIVE: Berlin, Germany – June 16, 2023
16. 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.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Berlin, Germany – January 8, 2025
17. Timelapse of lion column with clouds passing by
STORYLINE:
Mnyaka Sururu Mboro is still driven by the promise he made to his grandmother when he left Tanzania for Germany almost 50 years ago.

Mboro told her he would recover the head of Mangi Meli, a king of the Wachaga people in eastern Africa, who was executed by German colonists for opposing their rule, and that he would bring it back to Tanzania to give the chieftain a proper burial.

"He (Carl Peters) liked to hang people just only most of the time for his joy,” said Mboro.

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