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On August 13th at 15:00 Tuli Mekondjo talks on air with Monai de Paula Antunes and Sergio Zevallos about the hard work - still very much in progress - in order to overcome the terrible impact of the German presence in Namibia since the late 1800s. Tuli shares her experience as an artist, and also her personal experience and that of her ancestors. She also tells aspects of her archival research and negotiations with German institutions to have access to and liberate stolen artifacts, and even corpses, still trapped in underground depots of Berlin and other German cities. Live on air on Freies Radio Berlin Brandenburg 88,4 FM Berlin / 90,7 FM Potsdam, they also talk about the TELEFUNKEN German telegraph line connecting Togo to Namibia and its role in the genocides Germany executed against the Herero and Nama people. The artists reflect on today's genocidal world and German participation in it - as well as micro and macro domestic politics in what comes to responsibility and repair from the wrongdoings of the past. Who is willing to do the dirty laundry? Who is letting the shadows surface and dealing with them? Who is responsible and who is putting in the work it takes to transform an unjust political order? Who is going to clean up the mess, especially if ethnological and bureaucratic pandora boxes start being open? How are the so called decolonial aesthetics transforming society or to which extent they support the status-quo, especially considering the cultural crisis in Germany catalysed by October 7th?