Postcolonial Potsdam

Colonial History, Colonial Legacies, Walking Tours

[Postcolonial Potsdam @PoCoPotsdam]

vom #NeuesPalais bis zum #Obelisk begiebt euch auf eine virtuelle Tour kolonialer Spuren in Potsdam https://t.co/H2RsBqlCLT

[Postcolonial Potsdam @PoCoPotsdam]

Lidia Thorpe to King Charles: "Give us our land back. Give us what you stole from us – our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people" https://t.co/KZnWXXIBL5

[Postcolonial Potsdam @PoCoPotsdam]

If @elonmusk is so concerned about the World's well-being, why doesn't he invest in a cheap solar powered 4hour train btwin #Jozi and #CapeTown? Or btwin #Douala and #Abidjan? What about an affordable airway in #Lagos, #Accra or #Kinshasa to help ppl stuck in traffic everyday?

[Postcolonial Potsdam @PoCoPotsdam]

gerade im Livestream auf https://t.co/88ZocsI3Qv
@GUnrecht @decolonizeBLN

[Postcolonial Potsdam @PoCoPotsdam]

@konradinkunze @decolonizeBLN @CirajRassool @MwelelaC

[Postcolonial Potsdam @PoCoPotsdam]

International book launch of Fifteen Colonial Thefts at the @UnivofGh @MIASA_UG is on in 20 minutes! @KuK_TUBerlin @GUnrecht @NjabuloChipangu @FelwineSarr
https://t.co/dNOoJM1KcB

[Postcolonial Potsdam @PoCoPotsdam]

our member Yann LeGall has co-edited a book on the history of colonial plunder that features 15 scholars and 12 artists from Africa. Check it out! @PlutoPress @KuK_TUBerlin @CirajRassool @ChigozieObi_ @gringhana @decolonizeBLN @sindisonyoni @FergusNicoll @FelwineSarr

[Chigozie Obi @ChigozieObi_]

Digital & Pen on Paper Drawing Commission for Chapters of ‘Fifteen Colonial Thefts: A guide to Looted African Heritage Museum’ published by Pluto Books (UK).

I’m so happy to see my art printed in books & glad I could contribute to such an important one about African history!

[Postcolonial Potsdam @PoCoPotsdam]

Was ist Francafrique? Woher kommt das Wort? Wann wurde es errichtet und wie? Thomas Borrel, co-Herausgeber vom berühmten Sammelband über dieses "Kolonialreich, der nie sterben will", erzählt (in FR) https://t.co/kNFTLPh3Hv

[Postcolonial Potsdam @PoCoPotsdam]

"Civil society must address the trauma hidden in the unknown past and gain full knowledge of historical events in the respective areas. (P)olitical representatives are needed to anchor memory work structurally and foster remembrance of colonial legacies"
https://t.co/bRavPrvV8E

[Postcolonial Potsdam @PoCoPotsdam]

@KahumuzaWilfred @NjabuloChipangu Great suggestion, Wilfred. Pole sana, we didn't know any expert who'd be able to retrace this history and I still haven't been able to order the archives at the Linden-Museum related to these beautiful artefacts. But we're on it. Asante. Yann

[Postcolonial Potsdam @PoCoPotsdam]

@karas_paul yes, open access. You can download the PDF if the platform has trouble showing the text (it happens with some browsers)

[Postcolonial Potsdam @PoCoPotsdam]

our member Yann LeGall has just published an article on the genealogy of so-called "Strafexpeditionen" in German colonial contexts in Africa: https://t.co/6mokNYrpEL

[Postcolonial Potsdam @PoCoPotsdam]

Wir geben dieses WE eine öffentliche Parktour zu kolonialen Spuren im #Sanssouci in deutscher Sprache! Samstag 29.06. von 11:00 bis 13:00. Treffpunkt: Besucherzentrum Neues Palais. Kommt zahlreich! #potsdam @GUnrecht @ISDBund @decolonizeBLN @Decolonize @PNN_de @maz_online

[Postcolonial Potsdam @PoCoPotsdam]

Save the date: 23.08. --> Umbenennung der Petersallee in Berlin-Wedding in Anna-Mungunda-Straße und Maji-Maji-Allee!!! 🥳🥳🥳 @ISDBund @decolonizeBLN

[Postcolonial Potsdam @PoCoPotsdam]

@pejulayiwola 🥳🥳🥳Two Royal Stools from the Berlin Ethnological Museum were returned to Oba Ewuare II, a descendant of Oba Ovoranmwen, whose palace was ransacked and looted in 1897 by British Naval Forces https://t.co/NXdW2jzlB1

[Postcolonial Potsdam @PoCoPotsdam]

@GUnrecht @KuK_TUBerlin @Univ_Dschang @GermanyDiplo @GERonAfrica @KatjaKeul @GermanyinCMR @GoetheKamerun @FESKamerun @chk2310 @_DASonline @BPrSprecherin 181 on the blackboard, based on reports sent to the German Foreign Office (until the outbreak of WWI). Prince Kum'a Ndumbe III added a handful more thanks to his research on Cameroonian oral history and his deep knowledge of German colonial violence 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻@AfricAvenir

[Postcolonial Potsdam @PoCoPotsdam]

@samosafuz @artcrimeprof @Transkribus Transkribus is probably able to transcribe the first three, but will surely not be of any help for that last one! XD

[Postcolonial Potsdam @PoCoPotsdam]

Glückwunsch zum Klimapreis, liebe Mitarbeitende des #botanischergarten der @unipotsdam!
https://t.co/yFe30NcKUK

[Koloniale Provenienzen in Göttingen @KolonialeG]

Wann folgt die Umbenennung? @uniGoettingen
Forschungsbefunde deuten auf direkte Verbindung zwischen Georg II. und britischen Sklavenhandel hin. Das „Wahrzeichen“ der Stadt wurde von einer Person gegründet, die sich an der Sklaverei beteiligte und ist bis heute nach ihr benannt.

[Postcolonial Potsdam @PoCoPotsdam]

Was tun, wenn man fast keine Information über die Überreste eines Kindes aus Kamerun vorhanden hat? Mikaél Assilkinga, Tshiamo Moretlwe und Sophie Schasiepen erzählen (auf Englisch) https://t.co/REWjP0pUVP