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ta Emma Lee Schätzlein & Leipzig Postcolonial, 2023

Ana amfani da sunayen titi don daidaitawa a cikin sararin samaniya, amma kuma suna cika ayyukan tunawa na siyasa: Ta hanyar sanya wa tituna sunan mutane, wurare ko abubuwan da suka faru, ana girmama su kuma an kafa su a cikin haɗin gwiwar jama'ar birni. Don haka a ko da yaushe suna bayyana tarihin tarihi ta mahangar waɗanda ke da ko suke da ikon yanke shawara kan sunayen titina.

Shekaru da dama ana ta cece-kuce daga kungiyoyin farar hula game da sunayen tituna da ke girmama ’yan fim ko ayyukan wariyar launin fata. A matsayinka na mai mulki, mahimmancin mahallin (misali ta hanyar alamun bayyanawa) kuma, a cikin matsanancin hali, ana buƙatar sake suna don waɗannan, saboda tashin hankali na mulkin mallaka da raini ga ɗan adam bai kamata a ɗaukaka shi a cikin birni ba.

Wannan kuma ya shafi Leipzig, domin a nan ma akwai sunayen tituna da yawa da ke nuna yadda birnin ke da hannu cikin wariyar launin fata na mulkin mallaka. Ya bambanta da garuruwan Jamus ta Yamma, titunan da dama da ke da asalin mulkin mallaka an riga an canza musu suna a zamanin GDR. Tun da an cire alamun a hankali, ba a gudanar da cikakken nazarin tarihin mulkin mallaka a Gabashin Jamus ba.

Dangane da batun canza suna a tituna, akwai kuma damar canja ra'ayi daga masu yin ta'addanci zuwa wadanda aka yi wa mulkin mallaka a da, ta yadda za a iya ganin adawa da mulkin mallaka da akidun 'yan mulkin mallaka. An adana tarihin mulkin mallaka da tarihin sunan, amma a baya 'yan wasan kwaikwayo da kuma labarun da ba a iya gani ba sun shiga cikin wayar da kan jama'a. Wani madadin sunan Ernst-Pinkert-Strasse da aka keɓe ga wanda ya kafa gidan Zoo na Leipzig shine Hassan Essahas, wanda ya mutu daga ciwon huhu a 1906 a lokacin "nunawar mutane" a cikin gidan Zoo na Leipzig.

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Tsohuwar gundumar mulkin mallaka a Anger-Crottendorf

Dutsen mulkin mallaka a wurin tunawa da yakin al'umma

Wundtstrasse a cikin yankunan karkara na kudanci

Bismarckstrasse a cikin Grosszschocher

Ratzelstrasse in Grünau

Ernst-Hasse-Strasse in Wahren

Titin Lumumba da Tunawa a Cibiyar Herder

Palais de la Nation

Ernst-Pinkert-Strasse a cikin Zentrum-Nord

Dutsen tunawa da Kamal Kilade a babban tashar jirgin kasa

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