Colonial Continuities

Refugees demonstrate in the Oranienplatz in Berlin. Photo (detail): © Leif Hinrichsen

Refugee organizations
No choice, but a voice

Refugees in Germany have founded numerous organizations through which they struggle to achieve recognition of their rights. Their activities are invariably based on the call for more independence through networking.
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Reality is all colours – textbooks too often present it otherwise; Photo (detail): © Fotolia

Islam and Migration in textbooks
“Diversity as part of everyday life”

Diversity expert Viola B. Georgi of the University of Hildesheim explains why German textbooks still treat the subjects of Islam and immigration in an outmoded manner. [more …]
Afro Brasil Museum Photo (detail): © Nelson Kohn

The African Cultural Heritage in Brazil
Neglected by the Education System

Young Black people and people of African origin are still subjected to police violence. The country’s education system continues to pursue ethnocentric patterns. [more …]
Portrait Joshua Kwesi Aikins Photo (detail): © Tania Castellví

Interview with Joshua Kwesi Aikins
“Renarrating the History of Racism and Colonialism in Germany”

Colonialism is still present in German cities: Until the Nazi period streets were given names with a colonial background. [more …]
Matatu in Nairobi, symbol for the informal Nairobi Photo (detail): © Olli Pitkänen

Crossed Lines
The Fluidity of Postcolonial Nairobi

Nairobi represents both continuities with and breaks from colonialism. It is important to bear this point in mind given that Nairobi is a complex density, in spatial terms.  [more …]
Maize Painting/Photo (detail): Sam Fentress, 2005 – CC BY-SA 2.0.

Colonial Greed
Ten things the North has always craved for from the South

The industrialized world has for centuries depended on exploiting the countries in the global south. The list of products from the south which have enriched the first world is long. A short history of colonial greed. [more …]