City tour: Decolonize Dortmund - Discover Dortmund's colonial history!
The Decolonize Dortmund project, consisting of Black people and People of Color, is dedicated to reappraising Dortmund's colonial past. Historical connections and colonial continuities of the city, which lie hidden, are made visible through careful research. The project has developed a city tour and an audio walk.
As part of the IFFF Dortmund+Cologne, Fidel Amoussou-Moderan
invites you on a tour of Fredenbaumpark. There he will explain the history of this place, where Carl Hagenbeck exhibited African people at the end of the 19th century.
exhibited African people. Fidel Amoussou-Moderan, historian, curator and doctoral candidate specializing in colonial violence, Richard Opoku-Agyemang (RAZZMATAZZ), musician and artist, and
Mona Laiser, social scientist and expert on Blackness and Afrofuturism, are co-founders and active members of
Decolonize Dortmund. With their work, they are making an essential contribution to creating a new awareness of the city's history.
In cooperation with Theater im Depot
www.decolonizedortmund.de
Meeting point: sweetSixteen
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