in cooperation with The Talking Objects Lab
Why was there a beauty salon on the site of the Berlin Africa Conference until 2020? How did Deutsche Bank artistically portray its involvement in the Ovaherero and Nama genocide? Since when has the colonial-racist image of people of African descent willing to serve been cultivated in Berlin? Where was the world's largest collection of stolen ancestral/human bones from around the world located? How did colonial migrants from Cameroon and East Africa look back on 35 years of German colonial rule in 1919?
The Dekoloniale Unexpected Lessons Walk leads through Berlin's old and new government district, from where European and German colonialism received important impulses. At distinctive but hardly noticed places, activists and experts from Namibia, Tanzania, the USA and Germany who live in Berlin talk about inconceivable colonial arrogance, the will to exterminate, colonial racist traditions, unscrupulous collecting mania and anti-colonial resistance.