Post-colonial Cologne – an “anti-colonial” city tour of the Nippes “African district”

Germany’s colonial empire came to an end more than a century ago. Yet colonial structures and ways of thinking are still evident in our daily lives and there are lots of cities with street names that refer to Germany’s colonial past. This chapter in German history is only gradually becoming part of the collective historical consciousness, however. Almost nobody knows why Cologne was considered the West’s “colonial metropolis” at the start of the 20th century. Or that the Cameroonian jurist Rudolph Manga Bell pursued the matter of German colonial rule in his homeland in court. Or how black people in the Weimar Republic got politically organised to fight colonialism and racism. The anti-colonial city tour turns Cologne’s “African district” into a public place of learning and remembrance, where participants can discuss Cologne and Germany’s colonial past and question its post-colonial past and present.

Register in advance to take part: mail@filminitiativ.de, + 49 221 – 46 96 243

Treffpunkt meeting point / Rendez-vous:
vor in front of / devant „Em Golde Kappes“, Neusser Str. 295, 50733 Köln