In his study “Afro-German Activism,” Stefan Gerbing examines the scope for action and intervention of Black people in Germany in the conditions of a structurally racist society at the time of the Kaiserreich.
“After the end of World War I, it was not only in Europe that power relations were renegotiated and borders redrawn. While in Germany first the empire and then the revolution failed, the first German republic was founded and soon destroyed, colonized people from Asia and Africa took part in renegotiating colonial power relations. In Paris, London, and Berlin, voices of colonized people grew louder, seeking to assert their interests through lectures, letters, and petitions.” Publisher’s description
Stefan Gerbing 2010: Afro-German activism: interventions by colonized people at the turning point of Germany’s decolonization in 1919. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.