Documentation of a nationwide unique exhibition project on post/colonial memory culture. How have colonialism and racism inscribed themselves in Munich’s cityscape? How are traces of the colonial past dealt with in the city? In which places do postcolonial conflicts condense? What is debated, what is suppressed and concealed? Who may speak about the global history of the city? Whose stories are heard, whose life traces perceived? What does decolonizing mean today? continue / order

How would we live as Ethiopians in Zhengistan if we had suffered five centuries of colonialism? A postcolonial perspective on development policy and its alternatives. here

Three years ago, together with a large nationwide alliance, we published the Open Letter “Decolonize Orientation Framework!” [https://decolonizeorientierungsrahmen .wordpress.com /] authored In the meantime, the Framework has been revised and reissued and is being disseminated in countless implementation projects in schools and civil society.
At the beginning of September this year, another expert conference on the orientation framework [https://www .engagement-global.de/veranstaltung-detail/achte-kmk-bmz-fachtagung.html] will be held in Bad Honnef. A look at the program disappoints all who expected a further development in the sense of a decolonial, emancipatory education. In terms of content, the event shines with blanks on educational work critical of power and racism. In terms of personnel, it is mainly white men who are in the program. Migrant-diasporic and Black perspectives, as well as perspectives of color, are again absent from the content and panels. I wonder if the organizers of the Engagement Global event will publish their own position paper on anti-racism. [https://www .engagement-global.de=””] know? At any rate, the fine words remain empty as far as the orientation framework is concerned. The orientation framework has not arrived in the German migration society. On the contrary, the orientation framework continues to serve as a tool for maintaining white supremacy.

The situation on the Mediterranean Sea and in Libya has once again become more brutal. The conditions for sea rescues are becoming increasingly difficult. The EU is contributing to this escalation.
Refugees in distress at sea are currently rescued mainly by NGOs. In contrast, the so-called Libyan coast guard, which is supported by the EU, is acting increasingly harshly against refugees and rescuers. Libyan units, an opaque web of security forces, militias, and smugglers, fire on rescue boats and obstruct the work of NGOs in the Mediterranean. In Libya, people are abducted, tortured and raped. This also happens in official detention centers. Continue reading →