https://www.memoires-en-jeu.com/varia/le-genocide-des-ovaherero-et-nama-entre-memorialisation-et-de-memorialisation-desaffective-dans-la-politique-de-memoire-allemande/ (Le génocide des OvaHerero et Nama entre mémorialisation et dé-mémorialisation (des)affective dans la politique de mémoire allemande)

Keywords: #memory, #emotions, #Holocaust, #GermanColonialism, #Genocide of the OvaHerero and Nama, #reparations.

Le génocide des OvaHerero et Nama entre mémorialisation et dé-mémorialisation (des)affective dans la politique de mémoire allemande – Mémoires en jeu

Last August – after a long, long campaign – Petersallee In Berlin’s “African Quarter” was renamed to disassociate it from Carl Peters, the first imperial commissioner for German East Africa and driving force behind the establishment of the colony. Peters was a murderous racist, a hero for the Nazis. The campaign to rename Petersallee started in 1984. It took that long.

Mnyaka Sururu Mboro was among those pushing to have the name changed. He had heard stories about Peters from his grandmother in Tanzania.

“’Carl Peters was a governor here in Kilimanjaro. And he liked to hang people, just only, most of the time, for his joy. Seeing, looking at them hanging there and he’s sipping his beer and smoking his pipe,’” Mboro recalled his grandmother saying.

Mboro moved to Germany in 1978. His grandmother made him promise her that he’d recover the head of Mangi Meli, a local chieftain hanged by the Germans in 1900, and bring it back to Tanzania for a proper burial.

“Up to today, still, I am searching for it,” the now 73-year-old Mboro said.

We also interviewed Hermann Parzinger, the president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which oversees Berlin’s museums, colonial loot like the Benin Bronzes, and a vast collection of human remains.

I did a tour with Decolonial Tours (highly recommended!) and we interviewed their founder, Justice Mvemba, who’s an absolute star.

“If I want to understand racism in the whole, the scope of racism, how it affects a racialized person, then we have to talk about history,” she said.

You can read the story at the link in my bio. Please do. It’s important. Colonialism is not just something that happened in the past – we live with it every day.

#colonialism #Germany #GermanColonialism #history #racism

Quoting Perivi John Katjavivi (When asked about his stance on the reparations struggle against #Germany): "All I want is for someone to paint the school in my family's village... I don't need every German to come and apologize to me."

Talking of Germans flirting again with fascism (AfD) and “biogerman” neologism (so subtle 🧐) , came across a review of this 2023 film, which I didn’t watch yet. "Under the Hanging Tree" is described as a supernatural noir set in a small desert town in #Namibia, exploring themes of colonial history, cultural identity, and the haunting of the past. The story follows an impetuous city officer, Christina Mureti, who investigates a series of mysterious crimes.

[…] The plot is minimal and the solution to the murder mystery is not fully explicit. Katjavivi explains that unlike traditional African cinema, which focuses on surface-level events and characters' reactions to external events, his film deals with Christina's internal struggle with the ghosts of the past: "I'm interested in how to tell a story about a history that haunts you, that stays with you, that gets under your skin... that continues to echo".

[…] This design of the mise-en-scène gives them autonomy and control over their presence in front of the camera. This is an act of compensation and healing of trauma, and an expression of what Katjavivi calls the "decolonization of African cinema".

https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2023/films/under-the-hanging-tree

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#GermanColonialism
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Under the Hanging Tree - IFFR EN

The dual past haunts and informs the present in this occultist noir set in rural Namibia.

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See our latest post on the Herero Rebellion against the Germans in modern day Namibia. This rebellion led to the first known genocide. #HereroRebellion #GermanColonialism

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Herero Rebellion against German Colonialism, 1904

On 12 January 1904, a rebellion began by the Herero people in Namibia against oppression by German occupiers of their country. The rebellion had begun in January 1904 in response to rising tensions within the German colo...

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https://archive.org/details/o-tama-uli

O Tama Uli: Melanesians in Western Samoa by Malama Meleisea

Topics
#Samoa, #Melanesiandiaspora, #plantations, #plantationlabor, #genderedlabor, #germancolonialism, #germanimperialism, #germanempire, #indenturedservitude

"O Tama Uli is an historical account of Melanesian indentured labour in Western Samoa."

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O Tama Uli is an historical account of Melanesian indentured labour in Western Samoa.

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Records of the Maji Maji Rising, Part One by G. C. K. Gwassa; John Iliffe

Topics
#MajiMajiRising, #MajiMaji, #MajiMajiUprising, #MajiMajiRebellion, #anticolonialism, #germancolonialism, #germanimperialism, #germanempire, #historyofTanzania, #Tanzanianhistory, #VitavyaMajiMaji, #germaneastAfrica

Historical Association of Tanzania Paper #4

It does not seem like there was ever a part 2

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Historical Association of Tanzania Paper #4It does not seem like there was ever a part 2

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Radical Nationalism in Cameroun: Social Origins of the U.P.C. Rebellion by Richard A. Joseph

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#UniondespopulationsduCameroun, #UPC, #Cameroun, #Kamerun, #Cameroon, #RadicalNationalism, #RevolutionaryNationalism, #AntiColonialism, #GermanColonialism, #BritishColonialism, #FrenchColonialism, #AntiImperialism, #Politicalindependence, #TradeUnionism, #GuerillaWarfare, #Organisation, #SocialMovements

"The Union des Populations du Cameroun is a particularly interesting subject for a case study in African politics because it went against the dominant pattern of nationalist policies in French sub-Saharan Africa. It demanded the independence of Cameroun from Greater France; it called for reunification with the neighbouring colony of the British Cameroons; it viewed colonialism as based on capitalist exploitation and did not hesitate to say so, and it persisted in this radical challenge despite intense administrative and, later, military repression.

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Black Europe and the African Diaspora by Darlene Clark Hine; Trica Danielle Keaton; Stephen Small; Allison Blakely; Dienke Hondius; Eileen Julien; Tina M. Campt; T. Sharpley-Whiting; Tiffany Ruby Patterson; Alessandra Di Maio; Fred Constant; Alexander G. Weheliye; Tyler Stovall; Jacqueline Nassy Brown; Kwame Nimako; Terri Francis; Michelle M. Wright; Gloria Wekker; Barnor Hesse

Topics
#europe, #BlacStudies, #antiblackness, #blackchattelslavery, #imperialism, #colonialism, #blackdiaspora, #AfroEurope, #netherlands, #nederland, #holland, #dutchcolonialism, #france, #frenchcolonialism, #italy, #italia, #italiancolonialism, #germany, #deutschland, #germancolonialism, #unitedstatesofamerika, #blackeuropeans, #Afropean, #immigration, #migration, #immigrants, #xenophobia

This book collects multifaceted analyses of the Black diaspora in europe. “In focusing on contemporary intellectual currents and themes, the contributors theorize and re-imagine a range of historical and contemporary issues related to the broader questions of blackness, diaspora, hegemony, transnationalism, and ‘Black Europe’ itself as lived and perceived realities.”

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This book collects multifaceted analyses of the Black diaspora in europe. “In focusing on contemporary intellectual currents and themes, the contributors...

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Historical Dictionary of European Imperialism : James S. Olson : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The major focus of this historical dictionary is on the Spanish, Portuguese, British, Dutch, French, German, Belgian, and Italian empires during the past 500...

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