The fall of the Berlin Wall brought unification to some in Central Europe but not to everyone. As May Ayim captured in her poem, “Blues in Black and White,” “A reunited germany/celebrates itself in 1990/without its immigrants, refugees, jewish and black people.” There are more notable Afro-Germans in the public eye today than ever before – soccer player Jerome Boateng is a popular member of the German national football team, and Afro-German and Afro-Austrian politicians are winning elections at the local and national levels – but the status of Black lives and experiences, in all of their multivalent forms and expressions, is still in flux.
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Identities and experiences
Multikulti Germania
Grada Kilomba and René Aguigah discuss identity and difference (2015)- Being Black and German (2017)
Art and activism, politics and protest
- Appeal from 116 asylum-seekers (2000)
The Marcus Omofuma Memorial in Vienna (2003)- Protests against the “African Village” in the Augsburg Zoo (2005)
- From Agassizhorn to Rentyhorn (2008)
- Racism in a beer logo (2012)
- Looking Back exhibition (2017)
Tahir Della on the beginning of ISD (2017)- Ricky Reiser on the beginning of ISD and her time as editor of afro look (2017)
- Critiquing the “Moor” pharmacy (Mohren-Apotheke) (2018)
Community Building
Representations in culture
- Playing with the Three Wise Men (2000)
- Small boy, big voice (2015)
- “Black People in Germany” (2016)
- “Moor” pharmacies (Mohren-Apotheken) (2018)
Black Central Europe 