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Here you will find blog posts written by us, other recommended reading and what the press writes about us.

Blog posts & news

Have you heard these frequent statements from your white colleagues, friends, family members or acquaintances? Realize how violent such statements are, as they are counterproductive.

Book recommendations in English

The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon
Ein Klassiker über die psychologischen und sozialen Folgen des Kolonialismus

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney
Eine kritische Analyse der wirtschaftlichen Ausbeutung Afrikas durch den Kolonialismus

Collective Amnesia

Koleka Putuma
Eine Sammlung politischer Gedichte über Dekolonisierung und Identität

The Kaiser's Holocaust: 

Prof. David Olusoga
On 12 May 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa, modern Namibia - the beginnings of Germany's African Empire.

Stamped From The Beginning:

Ibram X. Kendi
In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history.

White Rage: 

CAROL ANDERSON
From the end of the Civil War to our combustible present, an acclaimed historian reframes the conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.

Book recommendations in German

Being German and Black at the same time: Memoirs of an Afro-German

Theodor Michael
Dieses Buch zeigt die oft vergessene Geschichte kolonialer Migranten in Deutschland und ihre Diskriminierung im Wandel der Zeit – von anfänglicher Akzeptanz bis zur systematischen Ausgrenzung. Eine wichtige Lektüre, um die Auswirkungen des Kolonialismus und Rassismus in Deutschland besser zu verstehen.

Black feminism

Natasha A. Kelly
Übersetzte Texte von Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, Kimberlé Crenshaw u.a., die intersektionalen Feminismus beleuchten

Your home is our nightmare

Fatma Aydemir und Hengameh Yaghoobifarah
Essays über Rassismus und Antisemitismus in Deutschland

Why We Matter: The end of oppression

Emilia Roig
Analysiert die Verbindungen zwischen Kolonialismus, Kapitalismus und anderen Unterdrückungsformen

What white people don't want to hear about racism

Alice Hasters
Ein persönlicher Einblick in Alltagsrassismus und strukturelle Diskriminierung

Black. German. Female.

Kelly, Natasha A (Dr.)
The author questions Eurocentric concepts of knowledge, power and the body from a Black feminist perspective.

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deSta in the press

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Deutschlandfunk

Historical city tour: Berlin's African Quarter

Julian Hilgers
ZDF today

African history in Berlin

Sarah Danquah
THE GUARDIAN

'Hidden in plain sight': the European city tours of slavery and colonialism

Ashifa Kassam
Berliner Zeitung

"Permanent colony" in the African Quarter

Maria Häußler
AL JAZEERA

How to pay for genocide

Shola Lawal
B.Z.

Berlin native Justice Mvemba wants to raise awareness as Miss Germany

Sabine Klier