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GO-BAMA: Between Hope & Dreams

rosepena — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 01:28:08 +0000

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Ich lass mich nicht verjagen!” – Farbige Deutsche und ihre schwierige Heimat

rosepena — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:10:15 +0000

“Heimat, bittersüße Heimat” ...

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YES I AM!

rosepena — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:06:06 +0000

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Afro-Auschwitz/Buchenwald

rosepena — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:52:47 +0000

Lebensgeschichte im Buch verarbeitet Gert Schramm wird Eberswalde auf der Leipziger Buchmesse vertreten. Der...

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Africans Fought for Kaiser and Germany in World War I

rosepena — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:22:14 +0000

Black Soldier who fought for Germany in WWI

German African askaris served nobly under General von Lettow-Vorbeck in German East Africa during WWI. Africans also served in the Kaiser’s Army in Europe.

The Colonial Army (Schutztruppe) of the German Empire employed native troops–called askaris–led by German officers and NCOs. The highest concentration of such locally recruited troops was in German East Africa (now Tanzania). The first askaris in German East Africa were organized by the German East Africa Company around 1888. It was during the First World War, however, that the Askaris became the pride of the short-lived German empire.

Askaris were harshly disciplined and well paid

Harshly disciplined–as were all German troops of that time–and well paid–askaris received double the pay of their British counterparts in the King’s African Rifles, and received specialized training from German officers who were themselves subject to an extremely rigorous selection process. Before the onset of war in 1914, the basic Schutztruppe unit in Southeast Africa was the feldkompagnie comprised of seven or eight German officers and NCOs with around 160 askaris, including two machine gun teams. Such small independent commands were often supplemented by tribal irregulars or ruga-ruga.

The well-trained askaris in German East Africa commanded by Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck managed to resist numerically superior British, Portuguese and Belgian colonial forces from 1914 until the end of World War I in 1918.

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and his askaris‘ exploits in Africa during World War I

General von Lettow-Vorbeck is possibly the most successful guerrilla commander in military history. He and his native askaris are famous for their exploits in German East Africa during World War I. Lettow-Vorbeck was fluent in Swahili, which earned the respect and admiration of his African soldiers. Appointing black officers, he said with conviction, “we are all Africans here.” Lettow-Vorbeck greatly admired his askaris, who displayed a fanatic loyalty in return. He treated them with fairness and shared their hardships.

Read more at Suite101: Africans Fought for Kaiser and Germany in World War I

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Hitler’s Forgotten Holocaust Victims

rosepena — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:11:33 +0000

Afro German girl in the 1930s

Like many West European nations, Germany established colonies in Africa in the late 1800s in what later became Togo, Cameroon, Namibia, and Tanzania.

German genetic experiments began there, most notably involving prisoners taken from the 1904 Heroro Massacre that left 60,000 Africans dead, following a 4-year revolt against German colonisation. After the crushing defeat Germany received in World War I, it was stripped of its African colonies in 1918.

As a spoil of war, the French were allowed to occupy Germany in the Rhineland – a bitter fought piece of land that has gone back and forth between the two nations for centuries. The French willfully deployed their own colonised African soldiers as the occupying force.

Germans viewed this as the final insult of World War I, and, soon thereafter, 92% of them voted in the Nazi party.

Hundreds of the African Rhineland-based soldiers intermarried with German women and raised their children as Black Germans. In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote about his plans for these “Rhineland Bastards”. When he came to power, one of his first directives was aimed at these mixed-race children.

Underscoring Hitler’s obsession with racial purity, by 1937, every identified mixed-race child in the Rhineland had been forcibly sterilized, in order to prevent further “race polluting”, as Hitler termed it. Read Full Article Here…

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Black Women in Europe: Power List 2010

rosepena — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:44:07 +0000

Black Women in Europe: Power List 2010

View more presentations from Adrianne George.

For Further Details Visit:

Black Women in Europe™ Blog

Other Sites of Interest:

BlackExpat.com

Women of the African Diaspora

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AFRO Deutsch; Afro German 4 BEGINNERS

rosepena — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:52:45 +0000

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Thomas Usleber

rosepena — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:49:06 +0000

»Kultur darf nicht auf die Sprache oder die Religion reduziert werden, denn dadurch wird nur das Trennende hervorgehoben.«

»Ich bin ein Deutscher. Bin ich es? Woran wird „Deutschsein“ erkennbar? Woran erkennen Menschen, dass ein anderer ein Deutscher ist oder eben keiner? Am Pass? An der Sprache? Am Namen? Am Aussehen?«

Mit seinen autobiografischen Aufzeichnungen »Die Farben unter meiner Haut« meldete sich 2002 erstmals ein schwarzer, deutscher Mann zu Wort. Der 1960 geborene Thomas Usleber erzählt vom Aufwachsen in der westdeutschen Provinz, wo er mit seiner weißen Mutter und einem schwarzen Bruder lebte. Auch wenn Rassismus seine Erfahrung von Ausgrenzung am stärksten prägt, gesellt sich bei ihm noch ein weiterer Aspekt dazu: Die Armut seiner Familie. […] Usleber arrangiert sich damit, als Schwarzer nicht deutsch sein zu können. Um dennoch in einer Gesellschaft (über)leben zu können, die ihn offensichtlich ausgrenzt, wählt er die Strategie der Assimilation, nimmt die Rolle des Vermittlers ein und leistet Bewusstseinsarbeit in der Mehrheitsgesellschaft, um “Toleranz” für nicht-weiße Deutsche oder anderweitig Ausgegrenzte zu schaffen. © Ekpenyong Ani

In seinem Buch zeichnet Usleber die erschütternde Geschichte eines Deutschen auf, der im eigenen Land als Fremder gesehen wird, aber mit Konsequenz und einem unbeirrbaren Glauben dokumentiert, dass nicht die Hautfarbe eines Menschen entscheidend ist, sondern seine Willenskraft und individuelle Persönlichkeit. AUDIO & MEHR….

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Jamal Makes A BIG Decision!

rosepena — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 23:53:43 +0000

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