and with artificial intelligence, real, somebody with a robot must protect its own existence with one ship energy coming from russia, russian gas chip, and suppose affordable and ship u r. stable, which has been both, not the case. it is a will that is no longer there. a it's a so form if i can't that i need to should it? good. okay, you fix it. the water was launched. their muslim ship worked for about

a new deal, a new one. your boat used to lunch money and you can keep prominence calls to him. like need and then on what also who your cooling, who your, why do you decide on sanctions, your sanction country, your section of course because you want to change the behavior of the government because the person that hasn't happened sanctions hasn't function with the

i feel like helen's diamond, she comes to south africa. the understand the newman mentality was that, well we're, we're in control, we've got guns, we can say what we want. i mean, it's the same as rape. you got to me because taking someone someone's virginity in either way and then making sure that she did receive in the music industry, the minerals and you've taken advantage of what we did not know. but eventually we're going to reclaim whatever is due to the effect of the people, the disposition of their land, and the depth of the wealth of african logic too. it was that he will listen to me and bring them back. also, fax, gold books, gold diamond, phillis goes on colonialism. a word that evokes misery and anger amongst african decades. later western countries still with valuable, stolen from african soil,

some worth 1000000, others price and ancestry value, the find to been diluted traces continue. well, come to africa now i'm point clear. last week we will in kenya, where we showcase the growing refugee crisis across africa. there are a prison around 30000000 asylum seekers and turn displayed people and refugees across the continent. many the result of conflicts sponsored by western powers and which been spiraled out of control, climate change and dwindling resources have for the field, the ongoing humanitarian disaster. if you missed the show, you can find it on any of the social media handles on the screen. this week we come to you from stuff the kids eating history museum into 100. it should showcase the rich cost of both the country and the continent. but instead of gracing these shelves, some of the museums most important artifacts on display,

in museum in western countries. they say a diamond is a gold best friends, but far from being a friend, one of the world's most famous diamonds has caused nothing but heartache anguish, and it repairable loss to its home towns. the story begins back in january 19 o 5, when a glitch in the ground turned out to be the biggest rock uncut diamond the world had ever seen. it was not far from here in a town called collin michel property. at the time the mine belonged to a european businessman and the diamond would put on sale in london, and eventually gifted to king edward, the 7 today calls to return the diamonds, have become a national debate. voices are becoming louder. one of them is the economic freedom fighters and south african opposition political policy that has always been vocal in fighting against colonial atrocities, and for reparations. and the return of african antiquities city think that western

influence has had any kind of positive impact on the continent or elevated africa in any way. look, listed in sprints in african continent has not been positive in terms of if you look at the deep seated problems that have happened. i mean, the wisdom society entered africa was a presumption that it is culturally socially calion political. and it was on that basis to the rest, analyzed, the abuse that the effected on african people, the disposition of their land, and the theft of the wealth of african people of the logic to it was that we were less than human beings. so the influences premise don't us not being worthy of being within so called betty as are categories. humans, we did not to produce so farm on land and by dissipating the capital it proven konami. we did not encroach land with their fences, which not to sit in things in western ways,

and therefore that made us list increments. so there is no wisdom influence that is the positive in terms of the life of african people. and do you think that post colonial atrocities should pets just be forgotten and we move on from there can be forgotten because if you look at the condition of the people live in today, they stem from what happened during colonialism. so you can say we must get but continue to determine the life of people today. can forget that we were pleased in specific spaces in terms of land would result in us living in checks can forget that have been excluded from formally education deliberately. so therefore, now we clinical, anticipating the corporate sector, sophisticated forms of economic organize because it's deliberate and the development of our people. so to foot, to say, must forget that without resting, all of the impacts of colonialism is illogical. so it can be forgotten until the until you change the mid 12 people, reparations are paid and we ensure that we are able to compete at the same level as those of colonized. speaking about the valuables that have been taken care from

africa. of course you have the color and diamond which today's part of the crown jewels. what is your party's policy on that? look, we feel that the northern was shown by the british monarchy for their trust, his, the impacted on african people across the continent. and even in other lands for indigenous people in india and america. and that arrogance is to patricia williams, still keeping the count which was stolen from certificate, still keeping a lot of gold, which has stolen from the african continent, another mineral wealth. so there is a lack of remorse for them to not be able to attend those basic things that we know . it was a foreclosure that still remains that they have the keens has head after defeating him. so there's a lot that needs to be done in terms of reparation. didn't cruise at a 10 moment. it was an i to fix that belong to can people indigenous people all over the world? have you had any response to your claims? because below to sponsor to that, we saw that prince charles made

a general marker before leading up to the funeral of elizabeth seeing that we have a complex issue with africa was no concern. has said that to this benefit is committed a person at a particular level. we continue to have an impact on our people in the to these to the stairwells as built and the blacks of african sleeps. so there's been noticed was besides vague statements that derrick li implicate to produce monarch in the crimes that they very well know they've committed. how do you think bringing back the diamond will actually help south africa? lucas symbology could be assigned to the most as if it is monica, but also it does with a lot of money. it could contribute to small scale development in the life of african people had, could show that relation to being totally rebuilt. between those colonized us and those were colonized in concord. so i think the impact would be much more symbolical than anything else. but the kennedy, some monetary value to the turnover that diamond could be used to elevate the student debt. and so that the kid could be used called housing and certain areas

improve what to infrastructure, energy, different structure, so much could be done with it, but just symbolically based on the right that excellent, reversing what of those crimes. i want to be the town of collin and is to date a far cry from the palaces of the united kingdom, where it has found a tone as part of the crown jewel. it's a prime example of how the waste treated africa as a playground, or should i say tricia hunt. we visited the birthplace of this controversial find. return i was stolen dining. that's what lake couldn't elizabeth get prompted many african to demand. and it's yeah. with the volt biggest cup diamond, which forms part of the british, one of the case collection was found. although this is something that the kind of in town should celebrate. it has but nothing, but tears and anger, the tongue continued to languish and slams. while the british royal how sits,

was stolen, billions on top of a heads, a cold in them. and mine is just the man that we know that this is doing nothing at all and doing a little in fact, because of its things that are not giving a new hope and future to this community. as a little light i know. and for the effect that the diamond that we or the man that we're talking about, dad has produced one of the biggest diamonds in the world. it, but the comment is still suffering even today. so remember, blix where, where, where, where the ones were working. those mice a, during your, your gold trash and you know, doing those? yes. so yes. what was really honestly, whatever that the blacks out working with their own beds, the oldest lived. so no atman has discovered that by that game,

you must remember that most of the mining industry, or specifically the time and industry has killed that market for us to even cut did here locally. so bring it to bring a big for what it is still going to come back here to say no, it's back then take it back to england to cut it, it process to do their jewelry and whatever. then if the dream to be realized, i wish to live when that day cuts. but the diamond one come back. but the only thing that the mine that can do here is to develop this area, develop its people socially and otherwise take them to school. because we lead to a lot of things. we spoke to chris bishop, an independent media journalist in the united kingdom, and got his comments. my christian, welcome to african. now can you share with us

a little bit of the history of how wakes and countries have been stealing from africa? well what i can say is a lot of it is gone on in the last century drum where you're sitting in janice, back to the mediterranean sea. i mean there are facts, precious stones, precious pieces of all that we just take it. we have to understand mentality was that, well, where we're in control, we've got guns, we can say what we want to know on is that to say otherwise. and, and in that time, in the last say, 150 years before the continent to independence. there was a lot of stuff taken. and again, with almost with impunity, both the colonel and diamond was a little bit more complicated than that. but essentially after argue that it was kind of the same way,

nobody kaelyn down and eventually end up in the united kingdom. they decided the, the them minority government and to give it to the british government. believe it or not, to heal the wounds of the anglo boy war, which ended the turn of the century. but this is a 1907. and is i right? when you think about it? i mean, your country is devastated by warm and you're giving something to somebody else. to hear lou, the victors feel the lose of this. but anyway. and so they got this diamond family . there is a story behind it in the fact that they said they were going to send it by ship to england. and essentially, what happened was they, they used the ship as a decoy. actually the of the, there was nothing on the ship and they sent the column in diamond by a parcel post. imagine my royal mail. best. do you think it can boil family with

support when they getting the timing back? example for you? i know this, your history, but during the war i plan to take nelson's column in london and take it down and rebuild it as a trophy. or if that happened and years later, you know, the war was over. friends again, you know, will never be great to go. now load nelson back up in where he was before and i just was like, you know, that's one of my heritage. and i guess it same way. i mean i can see why. but, but again, my, my city about it is, yeah, it's a quick fix. why when i just there, i mean it's not like the roll from the short of my. it's not like, you know, they're going to miss it. they got plenty of gems. and some of the in the queens private election, they went on by the state and sent it back. but again, i, i myself, i would say ok, let's make something of it. let's make it

a structure. let's make it into a way in which people get money out of it. and why are which people can create wealth or otherwise was doing justice in a glass case in another country is and she came in again to get the diamond back. what do you think, whether or not they're gonna go back to africa? i don't know. it's a very complicated situation. i mean, one would have thought in the car time of the royal family is not sure of diamonds and jewels, although i would say ok there you are. have it back. i think that in some ways it's very sensitive to the ro from m, and you look at it when the queen died. charles was actually taken as a people and i saw this bit of television and some guy said you're spending millions on your mother's funeral of our money. i mean, we are,

we're struggling to pay our bills and our electricity bills, which is true, but avoid a low, my gosh, you know, go away. but when is that? yeah, i mean the ro, family is live books on another level and not, not as a sensitive to the will of eagle as us. but then again, i mean, does the getting more or is this debate with never even come up yet? but some, yeah, i mean it's, i just think the world's going to grow up sometimes. so. okay. all right, let's it right you, this is your, i mean as simple as it would be, we'd have to do is leave it idle the, the sets are in the crime and the security i get is america. and it's a done deal is not like rocket science, but the united kingdom is guilty, not only for taking the cannon in diamond recently if returned zimbabwe and lawyers, skulls, that western colonialists took as trophies during the colonial laws. we travel now

to neighboring some bob way, way, although many are happy with the return of a skull. it doesn't change history. behind me is this take you off as in bob was famous liberation, war hero, known as we are now. honda also remains are also believed to have been taken by the british and are set to be returned back to the country with the remaining skulls. zimbabwe is preparing for the return of a worry as cold that were taken as trophies during deliberations struggle against the british colonial rule. a development that has led the whole country into jubilation. these are our heroes. we can be happy here after independence. when we have the remains of cornish nor heroes remaining outside the country, we won them their home. and given a decent area, because already we know that they are 11 remains or national heroes. that is now

been identified. well not by name, but he said that they are offering bobby in origin. it keeps us reminded that we once com got bay do i simpler or you and, and if it that we are not independent here without those remains the next us appear like we haven't committed, beholden. that is not all about bringing back some of that about taking down who are the people that we want to put there on statues that they have accomplish something you're in namibia. think about it in terms of that. instead of everybody getting angry, okay, find the stature was removed, the spectrum is gone, we don't need the statue, they, we can make way for something out there, but i mean, we know it's not to get upset for the stature that's been removed. how i feel about it is, i personally feel like the stage of good from french while we're supposed to be

taken down. we, we back in independence when we became independence. niger meant to be in still in the power of the minority in the people that suffered under the correct for friendship. so i, i can see that point of view and you know, if it gets removed, it would probably go somewhere where we go to few history like them, like a museum. we should still lever a place to, for people to sailors, to see what the past was. people to know those characters were and so on. so i can, i can understand that from that point of view, i just don't think it's a good idea to try and hide your history or trying to remove it to try and reshape things. yes, it is a blessing to see that of the 120 years it, he's the some kind of believing, hoping restored, you know, people are safe, is being removed. it's a very big, big, big move for the people of the country. they felt the trauma in the paid. yes, the suffering in the page now they're going to be removed. but it is. this is one

step closer to justice and peace into unity and to bring back the color him by abrasion coaching. the discussion of repatriation is not about object also about the people they are suffering and the right to an identity. mother. public debate is mostly focused and african art optics. tell only half the story. the continued suffering of african people calls the risk that says lead to the strong need for name changes the like on the country roads i'm standing currently in picks leak. i like to say mistreat, formerly known as sol, with st. then your name on is a leading figure in deliberation history. officer africa, basically, guy is like his name was the founding member of the african national congress, the agency and he later served as president general of the organization. the street is also home to lou to the house. the agencies had to cortez we had the studio of

africa, historian and south african sculptor, a t cut and truly, to gain more insight on his use of stolen african antiquity. for many is western countries and they history books have portrayed africans as uncivilized and, and educated people. yet they still still are valuables. i twigs and ideas. i'm with african sculpture pick unduly, so whom the 5 to get these pieces back to africa is real. it touches the very core of his work has any of the work been stolen by western countries and i had to in some pieces, it was stolen air when i was in swaziland and even when i was in the u. k. i think about twice where the paintings and the drone in the just kind of frame disappeared. but i was flattered, but somebody loved my wife. how would you feel if it had been and you are to

a sitting in western museums? yeah, i think that one of the most kind of really painful them of these, how a work of art is born. the 10 oil is the struggles. the juggling that takes place in some will is mind in order to produce a work of art. and after all of that struggle and all that power, yo, it benefits, you know, somebody else who says about one of the most coolest things that can be visited upon a talented person or even an ordinary person. and why do you feel western countries are still holding on to these treasures? there was a hold on to this on duty because they are worth a lot of money and to their vertically a, you know, works of art. and they know that as long as the human race in exist there, those pieces are going to play a very vital in the road or for either tracy nelson keeping us, you know,

in line in terms of where the, the things we are capable of doing. and what measures do you think africans have taken to get our valuables back and do you think we ever wall? i think am a visually, the several campuses are losing a some of the things because the very natives will that ablaze are beginning to raise questions about their countries in theft. i think radially not all of the x would be the 10 of course, but a lot of works would be in, you know, to attend. but the politics of art and the politics of her nationality in nations dated to list. remember in lady 77, when all african countries held 1st act, the festivals of ours in culture. all of them, not even any worse than or 5 eastern media, are in the attended that. they needed one symbol of the india mask. i

voted my schooner from nigeria that presented that we would like to have that as our sign of unity loan it to us then if you dont the even refused to loan that thing for symbolically these works. a powerful politically and a drudge western countries portrayed africans as uncivilized, an uneducated people in history books. what do you make of that? at the further crystal can only be answered by a poet did she care with? dancy was laid now who said they give you what they can no longer hold, right? people are invited to a party, they eat your stomach 1st and then your memory. that's what culinary zoom as it is done. so people like those are not going to give you something unless they no longer a you know,

need it. and why is african art so special as an african artist yourself? what message are you trying to convey through your art and sculpt tank in my own? it has got to do is, you know, spirits are going to do is going to try to cheat. you can do with a know my life as a political in the animal was meant for an elite death, but to man is to in a, to survive. it is more concerned the one that one the global you know, finance towards. it also got to do with bones and, and beads. it's more about the issue of an eco world because african cultures, eco viable wells that we have been created. that is why when a child is born, you don't even cut the umbilical cord, you wait for it to drop, and then you're going to bury that and have hal cotton planted tree to link a child, you know, to the tree. i am. so b, c,

i'm the mother of the hyena. i'm cro where mom, mom, mom but sneak in a so that whoever attends them august the hyena, it's a, i'm a conservationist. they all are probably going to change that to tom. well, you don't produce the rivers. everything is of a co viability. that's what our culture is. that's what my at, in a seems to be a i wanted to address the scramble for africa and its resources over the past, centuries had left a trail of devastation in its wake. from planted minerals to stolen artifacts, the voices from the continent are determined to be heard. well, that brings us to the end of this week, so we hope you enjoyed it. next week we will explore the search for alternative currencies to the american dollar by african countries. please feel free to reach out with you ideas, as we'd love to hear your input and feedback. you can always catch up on odyssey

for one tick, tock. well, that's it for me and the team from here on the tip of the african continent and till next week saline ghastly, stay, well ah, the ah, but then when you're not, of course you go, we use and i made it failed, but ideally chaslek. knowledge was hoping more of neat and clean so i can do my credit so close to hitting these to see if i mean from all to you know, when i was children, medi medicare for this whole you can throw this up here. but i keep calling you once again about a possible bill. now the key, for example,

a big rush that as if the books you put up, would you send me about a fire panel for gold then? yes. and from a do not last side until a genia i don't for my bad i've been trying to see to deal with the game both immanuel good. i'm part of the dickies off. i'm the i'm was a way to way festival by stopped in your cheerios. i was on the bus shaw vander, capital childris pro corda. this is alyssa shantell, assuming in the modern, which we've seen come across oh,

the kind of liberal agenda we see the west now is not maybe we could based but it kind of ways i religious creed and our child to crowd out all sorts of real estate practical objections to that vision of creating a kind of city on the hill on, ah ah

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