mangoes & bullets is for anyone who wants to engage with racism and other relations of domination, seeking inspiration for resistance and alternatives. Here you will find, among other things, films, songs and poems, but also information about campaigns and political activism. These materials challenge injustice from different perspectives and in different ways.

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“Politics, things that make you think, and recreational breaks” – that’s how Emma describes her blog and the content she draws on.

In the poem “Academic Indian Job Description: Have To Know,” Cree scholar Cash Ahenakew describes his difficulties (and those of others) in adapting to the academic context and its expectations with his Indigenous subjectivity and corresponding values.

“Call Me Kuchu” is the title of a documentary by Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright about the struggles of the LGBT community in Uganda.

Since the end of 2016, the multiple award-winning novel “Riwan oder der Sandweg” by Senegalese author Ken Bugul has also been available in German.

On the topic of “Flight, Sex, Discourse,” the educationalist Paul Mecheril gave a guest speech at the New Year’s Reception of the City of Bremen on January 13, 2016.

The Foxy Five is a feminist South African web series and has 4 episodes on YouTube so far. Triggered by the “FeesMustFall movement” in South Africa in 2015, the director realized that multiple issues around feminisms in Africa needed to be discussed and publicized.

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for 2015 were not achieved.In the video, Boniface Mabanza, expert in development policy, explains the criticism of the failed plans and implementations.

Afro.Deutschland is a 2017 documentary by Deutsche Welle that explores the experiences of Black Germans as a discriminated minority.

The campaign group VisaHow? advocates against discriminatory visa procedures and for freedom of movement for all people.

The brochure Bon Voyage! of the Berliner Entwicklungspolitischer Ratschlag (BER) would like to show racism-critical ways in development education and project work.