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Derek R Peterson Profile picture
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Nov 3, 2019 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
In the Neues Museum in Berlin. It strikes me that German museums would not exist w/o #restitution. Museums were gutted in WWII & thereafter had to be remade. So this stela was taken from the Neues during the war, bought by @kelseymuseum in 1945, then returned to Berlin in 2017. Image
@kelseymuseum This Persian prayer niche was installed in the Neues in 1927 and removed to Russia during the war. It was returned to the Neues in 1957. Image
@kelseymuseum There are many other instances. Berlin's museum economy rests on other institutions' willingness to return objects that were stolen, looted, grabbed, or misappropriated during the war.

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Mar 5, 2023
Like many others, I am sorry to hear of the passing of journalist and public intellectual John Nagenda.

His was an extraordinary life. Here's a short thread. 1/

(Below: Nagenda in 1989, courtesy @GettyImages).
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Late Nagenda's parents were William and Sala Nagenda, who were--with Simeon Nsibambi--the central figures in the early history of the East African Revival.

Here's William Nagenda with colleague Yosiya Kinuka in 1936.
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John Nagenda studied at King's College, Budo--his marks are detailed below. Thereafter he went to Makerere, where he read English literature.
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Oct 24, 2022
The father of new British PM--Rishi Sunak--was born in Kenya & emigrated to London in the 1960s. He was one of several thousand Asians who fled in the years after independence, seeking financial security. Short thread.

Here's Tom Mboya, Minister for Economic Planning, 1968. 1/
Mboya: while some Asians have left, 'I wld rather have that than have disloyal, disaffected people...who are not prepared to cooperate in promoting nation-building'.

In 1969 the Trade Licensing Act barred Asians from owning important businesses in & outside Nairobi.
3/
 As a result of the Act, some 3,000 Asian businessmen were put out of work. Many sought to emigrate to Britain--but strict quotas made it hard for them to relocate.

Here Asians demonstrate outside the British High Commission in Nairobi, demanding support from the British govt.
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Aug 8, 2022
Kenyans go to the polls on Tuesday. Here's a thread about one of the contenders for the presidency, @RailaOdinga. In the 1980s & 90s he played a key role in bringing down the dictatorship of Daniel arap Moi.

Below: Raila speaks at a convention of opposition leaders, 1992. 1/
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Raila married Ida Betty Akoth Oyoo in September 1973. She was to play a key role in his political career: as an advocate, a defender of his liberty, a spokesperson, and a public face--at a time when Raila himself was in detention & out of view.
@RailaOdinga 3/
Raila studied engineering in Germany; by 1975 he was a manager at the Kenya Bureau of Standards. Below: a thought piece from the Nation about 'Standardisation'.
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Aug 4, 2022
Fifty years ago, on 4 August 1972, Idi Amin announced that Uganda's Asian community--over 50,000 people--had 90 days to leave the country.

Here he is at 'Command Post' in Kololo on 6 August, explaining the policy to the diplomatic corps.

Short thread. 1/
2/
 'One’s mind boggles at the thought of the effects of the sudden withdrawal of all Asians from Ugandan life', wrote a British diplomat a few days after the announcement. 'Practically everything one can think of has Asian somewhere in the system'.

Here's a @GettyImages report.
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The Uganda government argued that the expulsion was an orderly and logical. Here's a remarkable clip: Grace Ibingira, UN representative for Uganda, defending the expulsion of the Asians at the United Nations.

As far as I know, this is the only place where Ibingira is on film.
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Feb 28, 2022
On 20 Aug. 1968 250,000 soldiers from the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia, putting an end to the 'Prague Spring'.

The invasion caused outrage in eastern Africa. Here students in Tanzania lob rotten eggs at the Soviet embassy--& express sympathy to the Czech ambassador. 1/
2/
 In Kenya students marched to the Soviet embassy, carrying signs calling the invasion 'An Act of Imperialism of the Vilest Decree'. Other signs: 'Russians Go Home' & 'New Hitlerism'.
3/
 For months the Czech Spring--and its violent end--were front page news on @NationAfrica.

Here's the front page from 22 August 1968.
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Dec 19, 2021
This is Mme. Pauline Lumumba on 19 January 1961. With a small group of supporters she had just marched to the United Nations headquarters in Leopoldville, demanding UN help for the return of the body of her murdered husband, Patrice Lumumba.

Short thread on Pauline Lumumba. 1/
2/
 On 17 Jan. Lumumba--arrested by Gen. Mobutu--was famously handed over to secessionists in Katanga & their Belgian backers, who murdered him.

On hearing her husband's fate, Mme. Lumumba marched to the UN headquarters--baring her breasts--to demand help & recognition.
3/
 Fearing for her life, Pauline went into exile in Egypt.

Here's a @Reuters clip of their children--Patrice, Julienne, and Francois--with friends in Cairo.
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