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"[De]colonial Migrations" was the title of the 2022 Dekoloniale Festival, where we took a closer look at the districts of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and Tempelhof-Schöneberg. As in the period between the Berlin Africa Conference in 1884/85 and the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, these Berlin districts are still characterized today by numerous networks of actors of African descent who, despite their significant influence, are neither anchored in the collective memory nor visible in public space.

Together with Vitjitua Ndjiharine (NAM), Maya Alam (D/USA), and Lulu Jemimah—the three artists of the Dekoloniale Residency 2022—as well as historians and activists, who each gave brief presentations, we visited significant historical sites of anti-colonial resistance in southern Berlin. The festival focused on the artistic works and urban interventions of the Dekoloniale Berlin Residents 2022, as well as sites of colonial migrant biographies, which we visited and historically contextualized during a full-day decolonial city walk.

With: Kwesi Aikins, Dr. Robbie Aitken, Maya Alam, Dr. Imani Tafari Ama, Judith Bauernfeind, Lulu Jemimah, Christian Kopp, Philipp Kojo Metz, Vitjitua Ndjiharine, Maresa Pinto, Anna Yeboah and many more

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The Reich Chamber of Culture and the Ministry of Propaganda

Dekoloniale residency at the Gropius Bau

A "Leerstelle" in the German Museum of Technology

Joseph Ekwe Bilé

Martin Quane a Dibobe at Hallesches Tor

EDEKA - purchasing cooperative of grocers

Black Activism and the League Against Imperialism (LAI)

W.E.B. Du Bois

International Women* Space and the Monument against Racism and Police Violence

Women's Center Schokoladenfabrik e.V.

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