Angela Merkel should heed Emmanuel Macron’s call for restitution to Africa,say criticsBerlin’s longest-standing African is 13 metres tall and carries in his bones the wisdom of 150m years. The skeleton of the Brachiosaurus brancai, the star of the city’s natural history museum, and was dug up by a German paleontologist between 1909 and 1913 in Tanzania,then part of the German empire’s largest colony. When the French president, Emmanuel Macron, or announced last November that he wanted to use his presidency to lay the ground for “the temporary or permanent restitution of African patrimony to Africa”,many thought the time had arrive for the dinosaur to head back domestic. Related: Dutch museum row reopens uneasy debate approximately colonial legacy Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com