"I find it important for there to be concepts for practices of remembering that deal with enslavement and also in particular German and formerly Prussian participation in it, but also thinking of a concept in which colonialism can be addressed along with it."
- Josephine Apraku
"I find it important for there to be concepts for practices of remembering that deal with enslavement and also in particular German and formerly Prussian participation in it, but also thinking of a concept in which colonialism can be addressed along with it."
- Josephine Apraku
To this day, the Berlin cityscape carries evidence of Germany’s colonial past, this, however, is only marked and contextualized as such in a handful of locations.
To this day, the Berlin cityscape carries evidence of Germany’s colonial past, this, however, is only marked and contextualized as such in a handful of locations.
While street names and monuments still honor colonialists and their crimes, there are very few places dedicated to the victims of slavery and colonialism.
This page is intended to give an overview of the places of remembrance for victims of slavery and colonialism, as well as of projects which make otherwise marginalized remembrance perspectives audible and visible. Despite the efforts of the Committee for the Establishment of an African Memorial, or KADIB (Komitee für die Errichtung eines afrikanischen Denkmals), so far there is neither a central memorial nor an information center of this sort in Berlin.
"I think it would be good and important that such an information center, including a memorial, would be erected and inaugurated, because I think that Berlin was a control center not only of German but also of European and ultimately Western colonialism."
- Joshua Kwesi Aikins
"I think it would be good and important that such an information center, including a memorial, would be erected and inaugurated, because I think that Berlin was a control center not only of German but also of European and ultimately Western colonialism."
- Joshua Kwesi Aikins
Further information:
Further information:
Memorials / monuments / further reference on the implications of colonialism:
Projekte / Aktivitäten die marginalisierte Erinnerungsperspektiven hervorheben:
- The Committee for the Erection of an African Memorial organizes the Memorial March for the African and black victims of slavery, the slave trade, colonialism, and racist violence in Germany. The march takes place during the last weekend of February, and has occurred every year since 2006.
- City tours by Berlin Postkolonial
- Verwobene Geschichten (Intertwined Stories)
- Kolonialismus im Kasten (Colonialism in the box)
