Related recommended writing connecting European communities with Senegal, Ethiopia, Namibia, Angola and other African histories. African places and peoples remain distinct from European national categories.
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Kum’a Ndumbe III
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Kori A. Graves
A history of African American families’ efforts to adopt Black Korean children, tracing the relationship between military families, racial discrimination, civil rights and transnational adoption.
Kum’a Ndumbe III
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Sharon Dodua Otoo
A novel linking women named Ada across centuries, from West Africa to contemporary Berlin. English editions are Ada’s Room (US) and Ada’s Realm (UK), translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi.
Eve Rosenhaft and Robbie Aitken (editors)
An edited volume about African diasporic mobility, cultural production and community across European borders.
Michelle R. Moyd
Book project on African experiences of the First World War.
Kum’a Ndumbe III
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Kum’a Ndumbe III
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Michael McEachrane (editor); foreword by Paul Gilroy
An edited collection on African diasporic experiences, racial inequality and the legacies of empire in Nordic societies. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
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Susan Arndt and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard (editors)
An illustrated volume bringing African and diasporic literature into dialogue with music, film, visual art and critical thought.
Kum’a Ndumbe III
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Worku Mulat, Ellenore Angelidis and Leyla Angelidis; illustrated by Daniel Getahun
A retelling of the Andromeda story with Ethiopian settings and cultural connections. The publisher lists an English/Amharic edition and describes additional Ethiopian-language editions. A resource for family reading and cultural learning from OHBD Ready Set Go Books.
Jacob Emmanuel Mabe; translated by J. Obi Oguejiofor
An African philosopher’s study of Amo’s intellectual development, knowledge, methodology, interpretation, mind and body. Publisher-hosted English text; the related German work is Anton Wilhelm Amo interkulturell gelesen.
Kum’a Ndumbe III
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Ellenore Angelidis and Leyla Angelidis; illustrated by Nahosenay Negussie
A bilingual picture book about imagination, music and horses, published by OHBD Ready Set Go Books. Leyla is an Ethiopian adoptee and a contributor to Lions Roaring Far From Home; BGHRA featured that anthology in 2023. A cultural and literacy resource rather than adoption scholarship.
Kassaye Berhanu-Mac Donald
A firsthand essay on Ethiopian adoptee identity, organizing and belonging. Chapter 13 of The Global Ethiopian Diaspora: Migrations, Connections, and Belongings, edited by Shimelis Bonsa Gulema, Hewan Girma and Mulugeta F. Dinbabo (Boydell & Brewer), pp. 330–344.
Kassaye MacDonald; Maureen McCauley; Leyla Angelidis
Lions Roaring Far from Home: A Global Anthology by Ethiopian Adoptees. Existing BGHRA 2023 recording connecting the Ethiopian adoptee writing already recommended by BGHRA.
Keith Michael Green
A study of antebellum Black autobiographical narratives and forms of captivity and unfreedom. Recommended on Keith’s BGHRA profile.
Charles M. Huber
Charles M. Huber recounts his Black German childhood in Lower Bavaria and his relationship to his Senegalese heritage. The memoir approaches identity through family, place, and the experience of growing up across cultural expectations.
Charles M. Huber Africa Senegal
Charles M. Huber combines personal experience with an examination of Africa’s relations with Europe and other global powers. He considers sovereignty, changing partnerships, and the narratives through which Africa is discussed outside the continent.
Silke Hackenesch
A cultural history of chocolate that examines production, advertising and racial symbolism, including African American and Black German contexts. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Kum’a Ndumbe III
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Kum’a Ndumbe III
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Michael McEachrane and Louis Faye (editors)
Essays connecting Sweden’s colonial histories to present questions of racial identity, Indigenous resistance and international justice. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Kum’a Ndumbe III
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Sarada Balagopalan, Cati Coe and Keith Michael Green (editors)
An edited collection on the continuing and changing forms of bondage and unfreedom across places and historical periods.
Marlyse Rose Tango Douala Bell
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Robbie Aitken
A study of racial hierarchy, social control and the construction of whiteness in colonial German Southwest Africa.
Larry A. Greene and Anke Ortlepp (editors)
Larry A. Greene and Anke Ortlepp (editors)
Mischa Honeck, Martin Klimke and Anne Kuhlmann (editors)
A historical collection spanning medieval and Renaissance representations, Black court service, travel, intellectual exchange and the colonial era. Includes chapters by Paul Kaplan, Kate Lowe and Anne Kuhlmann on early histories.
Manuela Bauche and Sharon Dodua Otoo (editors)
A literary journal issue asking how colonial histories can be rewritten and told from different perspectives, bringing together writers, scholars and artists.
Karin Oyono
Part of Karin Oyono’s Hickory Town historical series on Cameroon Rivers and the encounters, resistance and violence surrounding German colonial expansion. Consult the publisher record for this volume’s precise edition and synopsis.
Karin Oyono
Part of Karin Oyono’s Hickory Town historical series on Cameroon Rivers and the encounters, resistance and violence surrounding German colonial expansion. Consult the publisher record for this volume’s precise edition and synopsis.
Karin Oyono
Part of Karin Oyono’s Hickory Town historical series on Cameroon Rivers and the encounters, resistance and violence surrounding German colonial expansion. Consult the publisher record for this volume’s precise edition and synopsis.
Karin Oyono
Part of Karin Oyono’s Hickory Town historical series on Cameroon Rivers and the encounters, resistance and violence surrounding German colonial expansion. Consult the publisher record for this volume’s precise edition and synopsis.
Karin Oyono
Part of Karin Oyono’s Hickory Town historical series on Cameroon Rivers and the encounters, resistance and violence surrounding German colonial expansion. Consult the publisher record for this volume’s precise edition and synopsis.
Karin Oyono
Part of Karin Oyono’s Hickory Town historical series on Cameroon Rivers and the encounters, resistance and violence surrounding German colonial expansion. Consult the publisher record for this volume’s precise edition and synopsis.
Natasha A. Kelly (editor and curator)
The exhibition catalogue brings Black women’s visual art and essays into conversation about self-representation and colonial ways of seeing.
Ika Hügel-Marshall
Ika Hügel-Marshall’s memoir traces her childhood in postwar Germany, separation from her family into institutional care, and the racism she faced growing up. Her later connections with Black German communities and her search for her African American father open new possibilities for family and belonging.
Marissa J. Moorman
A history of popular music, urban life and the making of national identity in Angola during and after colonial rule. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Kum’a Ndumbe III
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Kum’a Ndumbe III
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Bodoulle Moukilo
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Keith Michael Green
A chapter in Langston Hughes in Context, pp. 115–128, on multilingual writing and pedagogy. This record identifies the chapter contribution rather than treating Green as author of the full reference volume.
Edited by Aselefech Evans, Kassaye Berhanu-MacDonald and Maureen McCauley
Ethiopian adoptees across multiple countries write about family, race, culture and belonging in their own words. BGHRA’s 2023 conference included a presentation with Kassaye MacDonald, Maureen McCauley and Leyla Angelidis.
Kum’a Ndumbe III
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Kum’a Ndumbe III
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Marion Kraft
This study examines how African cultural traditions and storytelling practices shape contemporary African American women’s writing. Kraft considers narrative voice, relationships among women, inherited stories, and literary forms through a Black feminist approach.
Khéops Ndumbe Kum
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Ingeborg Mautner
Ingeborg Mautner’s portrait of Prince Kum’a Ndumbe III, marking fifty years of his writing.
Susan Arndt and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard (editors)
An edited collection on African and diasporic visions of the future across literature and other cultural forms.
Kum’a Ndumbe III
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Kum’a Ndumbe III
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Collectif des jeunes auteurs / Collective of young authors
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Cristina Lombardi-Diop and Caterina Romeo (editors)
An interdisciplinary collection on Italian colonialism, migration and the contested boundaries of national identity. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Laila Amine
A study of literature, cinema and art that brings African American, Maghrebi and French immigrant experiences into accounts of Paris. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Marissa J. Moorman
A study of broadcasting, political power and listening in colonial and independent Angola. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Danielle Eyango
A novel in which Jasmine confronts an ancestral curse and family history in her maternal village. Included through BGHRA’s AfricAvenir guide; the author is Danielle Eyango, rather than Prince Kum’a Ndumbe III.
Sharon Dodua Otoo, Jeannette Oholi and Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen (editors)
Documentation of the 2022 Black literature festival, including six invited authors’ short stories and conversations about African diasporic traditions in German-language literature.
Kum’a Ndumbe III (editor)
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Marion Kraft and Rukhsana Shamim Ashraf-Khan (editors)
Co-edited by Marion Kraft and Rukhsana Shamim Ashraf-Khan, this anthology brings Black women’s perspectives into discussions of Europe and migration. Kraft’s contribution addresses feminism and women of African descent in Europe.
Michael McEachrane and Louis Faye (editors)
A Swedish-language anthology examining how colonial histories and ideas about race continue to shape Sweden, national identity, migration and cultural life. The title translates as Sweden and the Others: Postcolonial Perspectives.
Haile Gerima
An Ethiopian doctor’s return from Germany opens questions of political violence, memory, exile and home. Distributor credits include Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur in the cast, connecting the film with the Black Austrian collection.
Sonya Donaldson
A chapter in The Digital Black Atlantic on digital media, memory and Black diasporic archival practice. Featured on Sonya Donaldson’s BGHRA profile.
Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox and Susanne Zantop (editors)
Essays examining German colonialism and its cultural legacies through literature, visual culture and ideas about race, gender and national identity. Provides historical context for research on belonging and racial formation.
Tina M. Campt
What can a family photograph tell us beyond what first meets the eye? Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe examines photographs of Black German families and portraits of West Indian migrants in B
Andreas Nakic and Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst, with Diane Truly
Andy Nakic’s U.S., German and Ethiopian life history combines autobiographical testimony with historical context on racism, adoption and resistance. Born in the United States and raised in Germany after adoption, he reunited with his mother as an adult. ISBN 978-3-86331-492-7.
Michelle R. Moyd
A history of African askari soldiers and the social relationships through which German colonial rule and violence were established. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Marcia C. Schenck; translated by Joe Paul Kroll; foreword by Katharina Warda
Based on more than 260 life-history interviews, this book follows Angolan and Mozambican workers’ experiences in the GDR and across borders. Warda provides the foreword.
Kum’a Ndumbe III (editor)
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Kum’a Ndumbe III
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Kum’a Ndumbe III
A publisher-linked book recommendation from BGHRA’s AfricAvenir research guide, connecting African literature, history, language and memory. The individual creator credit is retained separately from the publishing and collection relationship.
Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. (editor)
Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. (editor)
Susan Arndt and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard (editors)
A critical reference work examining colonial histories within German language, knowledge and everyday racial thinking.