Germany resists returning museum exhibits to ex-colonies
(The Guardian France)

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, 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, 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 come for the dinosaur to head back home. Related: Dutch museum row reopens uneasy debate about colonial legacy Continue reading...