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Dec 11, 2022 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Let me tell you about King Rudolf Duala Manga Bell.
A fine man.
Photo credit: aalen.de/rudolf-duala-m…
He was born in 1875, in a part of a world that is now known as Cameroon. Back in the day it was a German "protectorate" (in German "Schutzgebiet") and yeah, we've got to talk about the colonial concept of "protection" one of these days. Anyway, I digress.
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Dec 2, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Der Text von meinem Beitrag bei der heutigen Straßenumbenennung:
Last night I reluctantly entered a discussion about the @buchmesse shortlist and then only left about 2% of my thoughts there. It looks einigermaßen ridiculous for me to be commenting seeing as the debate partly revolves around the omission of #AdasRaum. But in my defence
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I do have track record in writing about the marginalisation of Black people in German arts - see for example: My essay on German theatre in "The Little Book of Big Visions" edition-assemblage.de/buecher/the-li… or my article "Correct me if I'm (politically) wrong" micmovement.com/2013/04/correc…
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