Historical Organization
Berlin Postkolonial
Berlin Postkolonial
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Organization Timeline
No Humboldt 21 challenges the colonial framing of Berlin’s museum project
📅 1 July 2015Postcolonial initiatives and Black, diasporic, and migrant organizers opposed the Humboldt Forum’s presentation of collections acquired through colonial rule. They demanded transparency about...
Berlin Postkolonial campaigns for restitution and decolonized public space
đź“… 1 January 2019Berlin Postkolonial and allied groups sustained campaigns for colonial history education, street renaming, memorials, and the return of human remains and cultural property. Their work argued that...
Decolonial street-renaming campaigns commemorate anti-colonial resistance
📅 1 July 2022Berlin’s long-running campaigns produced new names honoring resistance figures and began to change the city’s colonial street landscape. Civil-society groups argued that public names shape which...
No Humboldt 21 and allies renew calls for restitution and provenance transparency
đź“… 12 November 2022Postcolonial activists continued to challenge museum collections and exhibitions shaped by colonial extraction. Their campaigns called for transparent provenance research and restitution, rejecting...
Decolonize Berlin celebrates the renaming of Petersallee
đź“… 24 August 2024After decades of advocacy, Berlin replaced Petersallee with Maji-Maji-Allee and Anna-Mungunda-Allee. Organizers and African diaspora communities celebrated a public-space change honoring anti-colonial...
Berlin celebrates Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-StraĂźe after decades of Black-led advocacy
đź“… 23 August 2025Afrodiasporic and allied initiatives celebrated the renaming of the former MohrenstraĂźe after philosopher Anton Wilhelm Amo. The ceremony followed more than thirty years of activism and a 2020...