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5. Jan. 2013 · 1M views 11 years ago. Rüschlikon is a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate and very wealthy residents. But it receives more tax revenue than it can use. This is largely thanks to one...
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28. Nov. 2012 · With Christoffer Guldbrandsen, Bernhard Elsener, Ivan Glasenberg, Peter Cadish. How Africa gets exploited even after most of the official colonialism has been 'abrupted'. How it systematically stays the impoverished continent whilst having so much resources.
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- Documentary
- Christoffer Guldbrandsen
- 2012-11-28
- Chapter One: Capture Begins
- Chapter Two: Slavers Turned Merchants
- Chapter Three: Stolen Skulls and Gold
- Chapter Four: Legislating Return
- Chapter Five: African Voices
Nowadays, the sleepy town of Chibok in northern Nigeria is notorious for the kidnapping of 276 children by Boko Haram. But go back 115 years and this tiny farming community perched atop a hill fought one of the greatest resistances to British colonisation. In November 1906, around 170 British soldiers launched what that country’s parliament called ...
Having been the largest enslaver nation – enslaving about 3.1 million African men, women and children during its participation in the trade – Britain enacted laws in 1807, with further acts in 1811 and 1833, that abolished the trade after frequent rebellions by enslaved people eventually prompted concerns from influential members of British society...
Throughout Britain’s anti-slavery missions, many prized African artefacts arrived in London to be sold onto European collectors and museums. At the time, scholars doubted “primitive” Africans could create such works. German archaeologist Leo Frobenius, who was accused of having stolen a sacred Yoruba Ife head in 1910, argued they were of Greek orig...
In the 1990s, the Washington Principles enacted guidelines around the return of Nazi-confiscated art. In 2002, the heirs of Dr Arthur Feldman sought the return of four old master drawings from the British Museum because they had been stolen by the Gestapo. The case went to court and the family lost on the grounds that British law forbids state muse...
The debate about who should be the custodians of African art has recently centralised in the Global North with academics and “experts” writing books on the Benin Bronzes to a plethora of rave reviews. It raises an uncomfortable truth that while they are vital to global discussions, Africans who are taking practical steps towards restitution have be...
24. Mai 2017 · Africa’s people are effectively robbed of wealth by an economy that enables a tiny minority of Africans to get rich by allowing wealth to flow out of Africa.
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- Nick Dearden
Stealing Africa describes the tax system employed by multinational companies in Africa. The film looks at Rüschlikon, a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate and very wealthy residents. But it receives more tax revenue than it can use.
"Rüschlikon" unveils Swiss tax haven dynamics and Glencore CEO Ivan Glasenberg's exploitation of Zambia's copper mines, spotlighting African tax evasion.
Stealing Africa. Christoffer Guldbrandsen. Denmark. 2012. 58 min. World Premiere. Festival history. IDFA 2012. Rüschlikon is a wealthy municipality in Switzerland where there is more tax revenue than expenses.
