Namibia gets back stone cross
In May, Germany announced that it was giving back one of the most valuable cultural artefacts in the 15th century, the Stone Cross of Cape Cross that it took from Namibia during colonial rule.
The Stone Cross is a Portuguese navigation landmark placed on the southwest African coastline in 1486, but the cross was taken and moved to Europe when the area came under German colonial rule in the 1890s. Germany’s State Secretary for Culture and Media, Monika Grütters said that the decision to return the Stone Cross shows her country’s desire to face up to the moral responsibility of its colonial past.
