Berlin’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 histories appear normal. The process shifted commemoration from colonial administrators toward people who resisted imperial domination.
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Berlin’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 histories appear normal. The process shifted commemoration from colonial administrators toward people who resisted imperial domination.
Decolonial street-renaming campaigns commemorate anti-colonial resistance. This event was organized by an unrelated group and made no demands about the issue described.
The record identifies Decolonize Berlin; Berlin Postkolonial; local African diaspora groups and the following context: Berlin’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 histories appear normal. The process shifted commemoration from colonial administrators toward people who resisted imperial domination.