"Decolonial Voices in Berlin: Views, Fates and New Realities, 1904-62"

The second volume of the "Berlin Series" entitled "Decolonial Voices in Berlin: Views, Fates and New Realities, 1904-62" was published on March 29, 2022. As a contribution to the debate on the decolonization of Berlin, this publication puts together some historical figures and their connections to German colonial history: the public voice of the politician and industrialist Walther Rathenau, the private fate of Mohamed Husen, who moved to Berlin as a black African in 1921, and the life stories of five Ghanaian students living in Berlin who were invited to the inauguration of Ghanastraße in Berlin-Wedding in 1962. Only by communicating such historical foundations can today's realities and processes be classified and attention sharpened for further necessary decolonization work. The publication, like volume 1 of the "Berlin Series", "The Systematics of Deportations", was developed by the Mitte Museum in cooperation with the Berlin publishing house Mitte/Rand. With contributions by Nathan Friedenberg, Holger Herschel, Thomas Irmer and Ursula Trüper. Available in the Mitte Museum and in bookstores.

95 pages, softcover, 16 pages art print, German/English

ISBN 978-3-9824252-9-0

Mitte/Rand Berlin, 2022, 14 €