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Street Debate: Africa's Stolen Art

June 24, 2021

Where is Africa's stolen art? In this week's episode, we are looking for Kenya's stolen Pokomo drum and discuss what should happen to Africa's famous Benin bronzes. Will they be returned and when?

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We are also discovering the aesthetics of Afrofuturism, checking out a youth-led creative hub in Nigeria, and explaining why mRNA vaccines are safe for you to use.

 

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Kenya: Awaiting the return of the Pokomo drum

The sacred Ngadji drum of the Pokomo community in Kenya was taken by British colonial officers over 100 years ago and is today kept in storage in London’s British Museum. It is just one of the thousands of artifacts that are now kept in museums abroad. But no one knows the exact number of missing objects, or where they are today.

 

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Street Debate: Africa's stolen art

The Benin bronzes are the most well-known African artifacts, looted during colonial times from the Kingdom of Benin. Today they are scattered across museums in Europe and the US. The 77 Percent Street Debate is in Cologne, Germany to discuss what will happen to Africa's stolen art, especially now that Germany has said it will return the bronzes.

 

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Afrofuturism: Between science fiction and tradition

Science fiction, combined with African mythology- that is the magical mix that creates the aesthetics of Afrofuturism. Kenyan artists Osborne Macharia and Cyrus Kabiru, as well as Nigerian comic book artist Ayodeji Makinde, explore and celebrate African identity in film, art, comics, and offer a peek into an alternative African universe.

 

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Nigeria: Raising Maiduguri's creative industry from dust

The Boko Haram insurgency has crippled northeastern Nigeria. But a youth-led creative hub and training center in Maiduguri uses modern technology, ideas exchange, and donor capital to unleash the potential of young Nigerian photographers and filmmakers.

 

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Covid Vaccines – good or bad?

Many people globally are worried that using one of the mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 could change peoples’ genetic material. That is wrong. We explain why mRNA vaccines are safe for you and your genes and will protect you from the virus.

 

 

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