Postcolonial Myths – On the tracks of a fashionable narrative

[ in German ] In a new book, German author and former SPD politician Mathias Brodkorb denounces the development of ethnological museums in Europe, especially Leipzig, Hamburg, Berlin and Vienna.

Instead of pursuing their task of collecting, preserving, researching and exhibiting, they are primarily preoccupied with the production of their own good conscience.

Due this preoccupation they not only conceal facts that do not fit the picture are concealed, but sometimes historical documents are also falsified.

Many museums have become ‘ideology machines’ in order to convict the white West of eternal guilt.

The Benin bronzes should not have gone to the Oba of Benin but to the people his ancestors enslaved.

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