German museums announce a new wave of restitutions, with plans to return objects to Namibia, Cameroon, and possibly Tanzania:
German Museums Announce a New Wave of Restitutions, With Plans to Return Objects to Namibia, Cameroon, and Possibly TanzaniaSPK president Hermann Parzinger and Esther Moombolah/Gôagoses, director of the National Museum of Namibia. Photo: © SPK / photothek.net / Thomas Imo.
Twenty-three objects from the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin will be permanently returned to Namibia. The artifacts, which include jewelry, clothing, and historic artifacts, first travelled back to the country in May as part of “Confronting Colonial Pasts, Envisioning Creative Futures,” a research project carried out in partnership with the Museums Association of Namibia .
The dialogue around the future of the object was accelerated by the group Bring Back Ngonnso, led by activist Sylvie Njobati. In a December 2021 meeting, scholars and museum officials from Cameroon and Germany agreed that, although the object had not been looted, the presence of von Pavel in the city of Kumbo was an expression of colonial violence.
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