Ovaherero skulls finally to be returned to Africa
Finally: over 100 years after the Genocide of German troops in Namibia the stolen bones of the victims who where sitting at the Charité Klinik in Berlin for racial research and measuring will be returned to Namibia. Why took it so long for Germany and Charité to return these skulls - just to keep the myth that Germany has no colonial past?
For the repatriation of the mortal remains of Herero and Nama, who were killed by German troops during the Genocide of 1904-08, an official delegation from the Republic of Namibia is expected in Berlin. The remains from the numerous German “concentration camps” in the former “German Southwest Africa” were sent over one hundred years ago to the pathological institute in Berlin and to other German research institutions for “scientific measuring.” “By using shards of glass,” so says the original subtitle of the contemporary photography pictured above, the skulls had to be “freed of flesh and made ready” by the wives of those murdered before being sent off.
more and here (German)
Releases in Oct: Lady May (Namibia), Bantu (Nigeria)
This Oct has been pretty exciting so far with two massive releases on our sub-label Faluma Africa. Earlier we had the stunning Kwaito Queen from Namibia, Lady May with a brand new album called “Tiger Ambition”. The album has many facettes and influences like traditional Namibian sounds, electronic beats, R&B, and Afropop, but all in all it’s basically a raw Kwaito album. You will like it!
Second large hit is the new album by Bantu - a Nigerian-German who is very well-known in Germany on who lives in Lagos, Nigeria since a few years. Since then he brought us one of my all-time favorite album “Fuji Satisfaction”, and now fresh out the studio “No man stands alone”. Like in “Fuji Satisfaction” the album has many intersting collaborations, e.g. with the Highlife legend Fatai Rolling Dollar or the female RnB singer Nneka.
After releasing two artists of that category in one month you might ask “what’s next?”. Well, Carnival season is coming and the focus will go back to the Caribbean. Also our new sub-label TropicalBass is in the pipe.. stay tuned!
Incredible commercial for paying TV licence in Namibia, made by German film maker Tim Huebschle (who did e.g. the music video clip “Chokola” by Lady May) with Namibian rap artist African Boy and Christian (AfricAvenir) as gangster. This clip reminds a lot of the German campaign “schon GEZahlt?” which had the same message (your kids go to prison if you don’t pay for TV) and probably the same effekt (= zero).
