This handbook brings together contributions to the decolonization of everyday thinking – prepared in detailed materials for political youth and adult education. Seven modules deal, for example, with economic structures, flight and migration, or language and education policy. The authors write in their introduction that the aim is to promote “the ability to question one’s own habits of thought in relation to Africa.”
- Between Colonial Legacy and Global Economy: Economics, Labor, and the Art of Survival (Boniface Mabanza Bambu).
- Images of Africa: Continuities and Ruptures –
History and Present of the Colonial Gaze in the German Media Landscape
(Abdou Rahime Diallo and Manfred Weule) - Between Violence, Coercion and Everyday Practice: On the History of Migration and Flight in and from Africa (Olaf Bernau)
- On the Relationship between Language, Language and Education Policy and Development in Africa (Thomas Th. Büttner)
- Politics, Social Movements and Civil Society (Michael Mindermann and Sunny Omweneyeke)
- On the History of the Scientificization of the European Image of Africa (Aïssatou Bouba)
- Encounters with memory
Documentary film by Richard Fouofie Djimeli and materials on colonialism.
The handbook is the result of the project of the same name “Africa does not exist!” of the Bundesarbeitskreis Arbeit und Leben e.V. in cooperation with the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Arbeit und Leben Bremen and was developed by multipliers of political education, non-governmental organizations and African scholars. Cooperation partners are Afrique-Europe-Interact (AEI) and Mate ni Kani e.V. (Association for the Promotion of Cultural Education in Niger).