Pambazuka News is a Pan-African online and email newsletter. It was developed in 2000 by members of Pan-African Communities in Africa and has since provided a platform for contributions dedicated to socially and politically relevant issues and social justice on the continent. Pambazuka News is published weekly in English, Portuguese and French. Current articles are organized under the headings Gender & Minorities, Governance, Arts and Book Reviews, Land and Environemnt, Pan-Africanism, Advocacy and Campaigns. Pambazuka News also produces the AU Monitor blog. Here, information is provided to civil society concerning the African Union and internal current developments. Pambazuka also produces…
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Subtitled “Remembering Black Movement History. Taking Stock and Developing Visions for the Future” was published in January 2016 – 30 years after the founding of the Initiative Black People in Germany – the volume Spiegelblicke. The book features essays, portraits, analytical texts, storytelling and photo reports by various authors, contemporary witnesses and portrayed persons. It reflects views from several generations of Black Germans on racist structures, identity formation, exclusion mechanisms, and empowerment. “The content is about Black people in the Nazi era, the history of colonialism and its reach into the present – for example in the education and legal…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB3d8SJrcBU Diese Poetry-Performance ist eine Ansprache an Eltern von Kindern of Color. Die Performer*innen thematisieren aus einer Betroffenenperspektive heraus Erfahrungen, die sie als Rassifizierte von ihren weißen Eltern trennen und mahnen zu einem reflektierten Umgang mit “race relations” (auch) in engen familialen Kontexten.
The volume “Visionaries of Africa” by Moustapha M. Diallo tells the story of extraordinary personalities of the African continent in more than 40 portraits. People who have created unique things in 23 countries are presented. The essayistic and narrative texts, written exclusively by Africans, speak of resistance fighters and university founders, of environmental activists, writers and musicians. The narratives and reports of these impressive personalities open the view for the significant struggles, achievements and knowledge productions of Africans and draw a picture of the continent that contrasts with the hegemonic reporting. Moustapha M. Diallo (ed.) 2014: Visionaries of Africa. The…
The volume “eingeschrieben” by Emily Ngubia Kuria deals with racist structures within the German university system. The focus is on the following questions: “what does it mean to be a black person studying and pursuing a career in a quintessentially white higher education system? how can i enroll in these structures and how can i change them?” Book description of the publisher Racism becomes effective in the system of German (higher) education in many ways. It structures syllabi and procedures for office hours, helps determine decisions about evaluations of (racialized) students’ performance, and influences term paper topics and speeches. Racism…
Daily Resistance is “newspaper published and written by people, so-called refugees, who don’t accept their disfranchisement by the German state. They write about their fight and share their opinions to reach out to people who are in the same situation.” Self Description on Daily Resistance The authors and activists fight to overcome unjust and inhumane living conditions. The goal is to inform and invite as many people as possible together with activists and supporters on the ground to break the isolation and get in contact with each other. The author collective of “Daily Resistance” describes itself and the goals of…
“Your utopia is my reality and my reality is your utopia”. SAVVY Contemporary – The laboratory of form-ideas is a laboratory of conceptual, intellectual, artistic and cultural development and North-South exchange: in the SAVVY studio ideas are transformed into forms and forms into ideas. SAVVY Contemporary sees itself as a place that actively promotes North-South dialogue in the Berlin art scene. Here, space is provided for critical discourse and contemporary art, in particular contemporary diasporic art. Accordingly, exhibitions, performances and events take place every two months in the form of a moderated “trialogue”: A curator invites another artist from Europe…
The anthology Sisters and Souls, edited by Natasha Kelly, is dedicated to the Afro-German poet and author May Ayim, her legacy, and her influence on successor generations of Black women. In the book, published to mark the 20th anniversary of May Ayim’s death, Black women of different generations powerfully describe how they have been personally and politically inspired by the author and activist. In the 1980s, at about the same time as the “women’s movement” in Germany, the “black movement” emerged, in which May Ayim played an important role. The diverse contributions of the authors of “Sisters and Souls” speak…
Roma Rights is a quarterly magazine published by the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC). It reports on developments in the field of “Rromnja rights” in Europe, on current states of discussion on anti-Rromaism and informs about the activities of ERRC. The latest issue of Roma Rights is entitled “Nothing about us without us? Roma Participation in Policy Making and Knowledge Production”. She focuses on racialized knowledge production, gender, LGBTQIA, and heterosexist discrimination. Issues of the magazine can be downloaded here.
The novel “Very blue eyes” (in the original: “The bluest Eye”) by Toni Morrison is the haunting and poetic story of the downfall of the Breedlove family in the Midwest of the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. It is told primarily from the perspective of a young Black girl. Her fervent wish is the blue eyes of the dolls and the children from the school books. With simplicity and depth, Toni Morrison describes what it means to grow up Black in a Black and white world, “[e]very world of inclusion and exclusion, wonder and terror”(publisher’s book description). Toni…
afrique-europe-interact is a transnationally organized network that has existed since 2009. The main participants are grassroots activists – including many organized refugees, migrants and deportees – mainly in Mali, Togo, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. The two main objectives of afrique-europe-interact are: Supporting refugees and migrants in their struggles for freedom of movement and their rights. The struggle and the fight for a self-determined life in security and under dignified conditions in different countries of origin. The initiative arose in the course of preparations for a three-week “Caravan for Freedom of Movement and Equitable Development”, which was carried out in…
K.I.N. is ein blog to bring the global indigenous research community together online – to share experiences, challenges, and successes. The motto of K.I.N is: “Kia aho matuahia te taketake, kia tūwaerea te tau (Māori) – When intellect turns to intuition, knowledge becomes wisdom.”