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200 Years Later…: Commemorating the 200 Year Anniversary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard, published as Nadja Ofuatey-Rahal (editor)
A commemorative reader connecting histories of enslavement, resistance and abolition with questions of memory.
50 Ans déjà ! Quand cessera enfin votre indépendance-là ???
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.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingA Child from Abroad: The Adoption of Black German Children to Postwar AmericaRecord cover · original image unavailable
A Child from Abroad: The Adoption of Black German Children to Postwar America
Silke Hackenesch
Research on the adoption of Black German children into U.S. families after World War II, bringing archival evidence and personal testimony into Cold War, citizenship and family histories. The former working-title listing has been reconciled with the current BGHRA profile and publisher listing.
Ach, Kamerun!
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.
Adoption Across Race and Nation: Histories That Cross Borders
Silke Hackenesch (editor); Rosemarie H. Peña (chapter contributor)
Adoption Across Race and Nation: US Histories and Legacies brings together perspectives on adoption, racial power, family, and national belonging. Its chapters place individual…
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingAfrica in Europe: Studies in Transnational Practice in the Long Twentieth CenturyRecord cover · original image unavailable
Africa in Europe: Studies in Transnational Practice in the Long Twentieth Century
Eve Rosenhaft and Robbie Aitken (editors)
An edited volume about African diasporic mobility, cultural production and community across European borders.
Afrika erobert seinen Platz zurück
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.
Afrika ist im Aufbruch, Afrika ist die Zukunft
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.
Afrikanischer Hilfsverein: organizing in Hamburg, 1918
BGHRA historical resource guide
The Afrikanischer Hilfsverein was founded in Hamburg in 1918. Louis Brody was among its founding members. The association belongs to an early history of Black social and political organizing in Germany. Read alongside the profiles of Brody and Martin Dibobe, its history helps trace community action across generations; the evidence for each organization and petition remains distinct.
Mr. Adomako, descendant of Louis Brody · Image source ↗
Afro Shop
Philipp Khabo Koepsell (editor)
Poetry and graphic art by Afro-German writers and artists explore home, identity, love and everyday resistance.
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AfroFictional In[ter]ventions: Revisiting the BIGSAS Festival of African(-Diasporic) Literatures 2011–2013
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.
Afroism: Zur Situation einer ethnischen Minderheit in Deutschland
Natasha A. Kelly
An early study of Black identity and the situation of an ethnic minority in Germany.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingAfrozensus 2020: Lebensrealitäten, Rassismuserfahrungen und Empowerment Schwarzer, afrikanischer und afrodiasporischer Menschen in DeutschlandRecord cover · original image unavailable
Afrozensus 2020: Lebensrealitäten, Rassismuserfahrungen und Empowerment Schwarzer, afrikanischer und afrodiasporischer Menschen in Deutschland
Joshua Kwesi Aikins with the Afrozensus research team
A substantial research report on Black life, discrimination and empowerment in Germany. Free German and English downloads are available.
Alice Hasters on Everyday Racism: Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen aber wissen sollten
Alice Hasters
Alice Hasters connects her experiences as a Black woman in Germany with a clear examination of everyday racism and antiracist responsibility.
Alice Hasters’s Anti Opfer: Making Room for Vulnerability
Alice Hasters
Alice Hasters examines our discomfort with vulnerability and asks what recognizing harm and responsibility could mean for public life.
Alice Hasters’s Identitätskrise: Identity, Memory, and Social Change
Alice Hasters Identitätskrise identity memory belonging responsibility
Alice Hasters explores identity, historical responsibility, and the gap between society’s self-image and lived reality in Identitätskrise.
Also by Mail
Olumide Popoola
A play exploring Nigerian-German family relationships, inheritance and belonging across generations.
Amilcar Cabral ou la tempête en Guinée Bissao
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.
Ankunft – Alltag – Ausreise: Migration und interkulturelle Begegnung in der DDR-Gesellschaft
Christian Th. Müller and Patrice G. Poutrus (editors)
An edited volume on migrants, political exiles, foreign workers and encounters between newcomers and established residents in East Germany.
Antiamerikanismus im 20. Jahrhundert: Studien zu Ost- und Westeuropa
Jan C. Behrends, Árpád von Klimó and Patrice G. Poutrus (editors)
Comparative historical studies of anti-Americanism in Eastern and Western Europe during the twentieth century.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingAnton Wilhelm Amo: The Intercultural Background of His PhilosophyRecord cover · original image unavailable
Anton Wilhelm Amo: The Intercultural Background of His Philosophy
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.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingAnton Wilhelm Amo’s Philosophical Dissertations on Mind and BodyRecord cover · original image unavailable
Anton Wilhelm Amo’s Philosophical Dissertations on Mind and Body
Anton Wilhelm Amo; edited and translated by Stephen Menn and Justin E. H. Smith
The two 1734 dissertations in Latin with facing English translations, explanatory notes and an extensive introduction. A primary-text starting point for Amo’s arguments about mind, sensation and the living body.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingArriving in the Future: Stories of Home and ExileRecord cover · original image unavailable
Arriving in the Future: Stories of Home and Exile
Asoka Esuruoso and Philipp Khabo Koepsell (editors)
An English-language anthology of poetry, fiction and essays by Black writers and artists living in Germany.
Au nom d’une race
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.
Black Anthology: Adult Adoptees Claim Their Space (The AN-YA Project)
The AN-YA Project; includes Rosemarie Peña
Black adult adoptees share distinct stories of identity, family, racism, and belonging. Includes Rosemarie Peña’s essay on Black German reunification and diaspora.
Black Archives Berlin: recovering activism before 1985
BGHRA historical resource guide
In February 2024, Each One Teach One presented an exhibition on Black activism in Berlin and divided Germany during the 1960s and 1970s, together with a lecture on the Black Information Center. Flyers, photographs, and contemporary documents offered evidence of organizing before the better-known movements of the 1980s. This resource gives researchers a direct route to the community institution preserving and interpreting that material.
Each One Teach One / Black Ourstory Month 2024 programme graphic · Image source ↗
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · BGHRA conference recordingBlack Archives, Black Futures: queer identity, national belonging and archivesRecord cover · original image unavailable
Black Archives, Black Futures: queer identity, national belonging and archives
Priscilla Layne; Kasturi Chatterjee; Araba Johnston-Arthur
Queer Black German identity, Afrosurrealism, national belonging, archives, and mattering. BGHRA 2026 — Black Archives, Black Futures: Enfleshment. Existing BGHRA recording, cross-listed here for discovery.
Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884–1960
Robbie Aitken and Eve Rosenhaft
A history of Black community formation in Germany, tracing family lives, migration and persecution under Nazism.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingBlues in Black and White: A Collection of Essays, Poetry and ConversationsRecord cover · original image unavailable
Blues in Black and White: A Collection of Essays, Poetry and Conversations
May Ayim; translated by Anne V. Adams
May Ayim; translated by Anne V. Adams
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Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes
Eight short stories explore migration, borders and the encounters surrounding the refugee camp in Calais.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingBrüderRecord cover · original image unavailable
Charles M. Huber’s Ein Niederbayer im Senegal: A Life Across Two Worlds
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’s Weltbühne Afrika: Africa, Sovereignty, and Global Relations
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.
Chocolate and Blackness: A Cultural History
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.
Das Deutsche Kaiserreich in Kamerun
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.
Das Fest der Liebe
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.
Die Akte James Knopf: Afrodeutsche Wort- und Streitkunst
Philipp Khabo Koepsell / Köpsell
Poetry, spoken word and political satire confront everyday racism and the negotiation of Afro-German identity.
Die Erfindung des Goldbroilers: Über den Zusammenhang zwischen Herrschaftssicherung und Konsumentwicklung in der DDR
Patrice G. Poutrus
A study of poultry production and consumption in East Germany, examining the relationship between SED state planning and everyday consumer expectations.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingDie Schwarze Madonna – Fatou Falls erster Fall: Afrodeutscher HeimatkrimiRecord cover · original image unavailable
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Digital archiveDigital Black European ArchiveRecord cover · original image unavailable
Digital Black European Archive
Digital Black European Archive
A transnational, multilingual archive centering Black knowledge production. Includes the Afrogerman magazine Afrekete (1988–1990), connecting Black feminist periodical histories to the broader European record.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingDimbámbɛ́ ́lá Sáwá. Mambéndá másū na ɓeɗɛmo ɓásū 1920-1930Record cover · original image unavailable
Dimbámbɛ́ ́lá Sáwá. Mambéndá másū na ɓeɗɛmo ɓásū 1920-1930
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.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Community library / archiveEach One Teach One: library and archiveRecord cover · original image unavailable
Each One Teach One: library and archive
Each One Teach One e.V.
A community library and archive connecting Black writing, knowledge, cultural work and education in Berlin.
Engomè, La Fille Du Prêtre Ou Le Combat Pour La Dignité
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.
Erinnerungskämpfe: Neues deutsches Geschichtsbewusstsein
Jürgen Zimmerer (editor); Katharina Warda and Patrice G. Poutrus (chapter co-authors)
Essays on contested German public memory. Warda and Poutrus co-author the chapter on the GDR as a migration society and racist violence in the post-unification years.
Erste Indaba Schwarzer Kulturschaffender in Deutschland: Protokolle
Philipp Khabo Koepsell (editor); Joshua Kwesi Aikins (contributor)
Proceedings from a gathering of Black cultural workers in Berlin, documenting experiences, strategies and institutional challenges.
Exclusion and Inclusion: Gradations of Whiteness and Socio-Economic Engineering in German Southwest Africa, 1884–1914
Robbie Aitken
A study of racial hierarchy, social control and the construction of whiteness in colonial German Southwest Africa.
Fatima El-Tayeb’s European Others: Belonging from Below
Fatima El-Tayeb
In European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe, Fatima El-Tayeb examines how racialized communities challenge narrow ideas of who belongs in Europe. Music, performance, activism, gender, and sexuality become routes
Florida Sun 3/2026 — Breaking News und Brezeln: Constance Jones
Daniela Boettcher (article); Constance Jones (profile subject)
German-language magazine profile of NBC 6 South Florida anchor and BGHRA keynote speaker Constance Jones Simmons. The article, on page 20 of the July–September 2026 issue, explores her Stuttgart and Swabian roots, German-American life, journalism and connection to home through bread and baking. The publication link opens the article in the publisher’s free full-issue reader; Source & context opens the complete issue from its beginning.
Article: Daniela Boettcher. Photograph credited in the magazine: Constance Jones / privat. Publication: Florida Sun Magazine, issue 3/2026, page 20.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingFremde und Fremd-Sein in der DDR: Zu historischen Ursachen der Fremdenfeindlichkeit in OstdeutschlandRecord cover · original image unavailable
Fremde und Fremd-Sein in der DDR: Zu historischen Ursachen der Fremdenfeindlichkeit in Ostdeutschland
Jan C. Behrends, Thomas Lindenberger and Patrice G. Poutrus (editors)
An edited collection investigating how East German institutions and everyday practices shaped exclusion, migration and hostility toward people treated as outsiders.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingGermans and African Americans: Two Centuries of ExchangeRecord cover · original image unavailable
Germans and African Americans: Two Centuries of Exchange
Larry A. Greene and Anke Ortlepp (editors)
Larry A. Greene and Anke Ortlepp (editors)
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingGermany and the Black Diaspora: Points of Contact, 1250–1914Record cover · original image unavailable
Germany and the Black Diaspora: Points of Contact, 1250–1914
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.
Geschichte schreiben: Neue Rundschau 2018/2
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.
Hans Massaquoi’s Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
Hans J. Massaquoi
Hans Massaquoi recalls growing up in Hamburg as the son of a German mother and a Liberian father. His account follows childhood aspirations, racial exclusion, and the struggle to survive Nazi rule and war.
Hickory Town. Des palabres et des hommes. Tome I
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.
Hickory Town. La Grande Fussilade. Tome Ⅴ
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.
Hickory Town. Lock Priso: Descendez-Moi Votre Drapeau-Là! Tome Ⅲ
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.
Hickory Town. L’Impuissance De La Puissance Protectrice. Tome Ⅳ
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.
Hickory Town. Pax Germanica. Tome VI
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.
Hickory Town. Provoquer un lion qui dort… Tome Ⅱ
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.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingHitler’s Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of European Blacks, Africans and African Americans During the Nazi EraRecord cover · original image unavailable
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingHomestory Deutschland: Black Biographies in Historical and in Present TimesRecord cover · original image unavailable
Homestory Deutschland: Black Biographies in Historical and in Present Times
Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD Bund) e.V.
A collective self-portrait of Black German history, told through biographies spanning three centuries.
I AM MILLI: Ikonografien des Schwarzen Feminismus
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’s Invisible Woman / Daheim unterwegs: A Black German Life
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.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Community organizationInitiative Schwarze Menschen in DeutschlandRecord cover · original image unavailable
Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland
ISD Bund e.V.
A national Black self-organization whose own history and public resources document community organizing, empowerment and political participation.
International Adoption in North American Literature and Culture
Mark Shackleton (editor); Rosemarie Peña (chapter contributor)
How are international adoption and adoptee lives represented in literature and culture? This edited collection brings literary and cultural analysis to questions of family,…
Judy Fambrough-Billingsley’s Too Brown to Keep: A Search for Family
Judy Fambrough-Billingsley
Too Brown to Keep: A Search for Love, Forgiveness and Healing follows Judy Fambrough-Billingsley’s journey from childhood in Germany and adoption in the United States to a search…
Kafra Biatanga – Tragödie Afrikas
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.
Krisenprävention. Ein möglicher Weg aus Krieg und Genozid
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.
La Bible et les Canons
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.
Lena Whooo’s un-fulfilled: Identity, Freedom, and Life
Lena Whooo
Lena Whooo brings poetry, short prose, and drawings together to explore identity, freedom, and the uneven terrain between satisfaction and dissatisfaction. The collection draws on personal reflection and the process of finding an artistic voice.
Like Water Like Sea
Olumide Popoola
A novel about grief, queer intimacy, mental health and the difficult work of rebuilding a life.
Lumumba II.
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.
L’Afrique s’annonce au rendez-vous, la tête haute!
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.
Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation
Lynette Roth (editor); Katharina Warda and Natasha A. Kelly (contributors)
An exhibition catalogue examining contemporary art, migration and changing ideas of German identity, with contributions by Warda, Kelly and other scholars and curators.
Mapping Black Europe: Monuments, Markers, Memories
Natasha A. Kelly and Olive Vassell (editors)
Black scholars and activists trace public memory, community histories and overlooked places across eight European capitals.
Marie Nejar’s Autobiography: Childhood and Survival in Hamburg
Marie Nejar, with Regina Carstensen
Marie Nejar remembers her childhood in Hamburg-St. Pauli during Nazi rule and her later career as the singer Leila Negra. Her account brings survival, relationships, performance, and the continuing pressures of racial stereotyping into view.
Marion Kraft’s Empowering Encounters with Audre Lorde: Memory and Resistance
Marion Kraft
Drawing on a personal friendship, Marion Kraft considers Audre Lorde’s literary and political influence through essays, speeches, and an interview. The collection connects Lorde’s writing with Black feminist organizing across national borders.
Marion Kraft’s Kinder der Befreiung: Black German Perspectives after 1945
Marion Kraft (editor); includes Rosemarie Peña
Kinder der Befreiung: Transatlantische Erfahrungen und Perspektiven Schwarzer Deutscher der Nachkriegsgeneration brings together Black German perspectives on the postwar…
Marion Kraft’s The African Continuum: Black Women’s Literary Traditions
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.
Marion Kraft’s Weltenwechsel: Black German Lives Across Generations
Marion Kraft
Marion Kraft’s debut novel follows Julia from a childhood shaped by war, poverty, and racial exclusion toward a life of greater independence. The experiences of three generations of women open a Black German perspective on West Germany after 1945.
Millis Erwachen / Milli’s Awakening: Schwarze Frauen, Kunst und Widerstand
Natasha A. Kelly
The companion book to Kelly’s documentary shares the perspectives of eight Black women working in the arts in Germany.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingMiníá má Sáwá – Ɓetélédí na Ɓetɛ́sédí ɓá ƁolóɓaRecord cover · original image unavailable
Miníá má Sáwá – Ɓetélédí na Ɓetɛ́sédí ɓá Ɓolóɓa
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.
Mixed Blessing
Doris McMillon, with Michele Sherman
An autobiographical account of the search for a birth mother. Sonya Donaldson’s scholarship, featured on the BGHRA site, reads it alongside Ika Hügel-Marshall’s Invisible Woman to consider Black German girlhood, family separation and belonging.
Moi, Kum’a Ndumbe III. 1968-2018: Jubilé de 50 ans d’écriture
Ingeborg Mautner
Ingeborg Mautner’s portrait of Prince Kum’a Ndumbe III, marking fifty years of his writing.
Nach Auschwitz: Schwieriges Erbe DDR / After Auschwitz: The Difficult Legacies of the GDR
Enrico Heitzer, Martin Jander, Anetta Kahane and Patrice G. Poutrus (editors)
A collection examining East Germany’s relationship with the Nazi past and the histories of antisemitism, racism and exclusion. English edition: After Auschwitz (2021).
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingNarrating African FutureS: In(ter)ventions and Agencies in African and African Diasporic FictionRecord cover · original image unavailable
Narrating African FutureS: In(ter)ventions and Agencies in African and African Diasporic Fiction
Susan Arndt and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard (editors)
An edited collection on African and diasporic visions of the future across literature and other cultural forms.
Natasha A. Kelly’s Afrokultur: Black Knowledge Across Generations
Natasha A. Kelly
Natasha A. Kelly places Black German history and intellectual life in a global conversation through the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Audre Lorde, and May Ayim. She examines the conditions under which Black knowledge is recognized, excluded, and carried forward.
Nationalsozialismus und Apartheid
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.
Noah Sow’s Deutschland Schwarz Weiß: Understanding Everyday Racism
Noah Sow
Deutschland Schwarz Weiß: Der alltägliche Rassismus examines how racism operates through everyday language, media, and assumptions about Germany. Noah Sow combines direct analysis and humor to make familiar practices available for
Nouvelles Interdites
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.
Nzitu Mawakha’s Daima: Images of Women of Colour in Germany
Nzitu Mawakha; edited by Sharon Dodua Otoo
Photographs and first-person texts bring Black women living and working in Germany into a collective portrait. Nzitu Mawakha’s black-and-white images show individuals, friendships, and community, while the women’s words return the gaze to the reader.
Paradis D’enfer. Hell’s Paradise
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.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingParzival and TiturelRecord cover · original image unavailable
Parzival and Titurel
Wolfram von Eschenbach; translated by Cyril Edwards
An English translation of the medieval romance featuring the Black queen Belakane and Feirefiz, Parzival’s half-brother. Literary representation, kinship and religious difference; this is not a book by a Black German author.
Peggy Piesche’s Euer Schweigen schützt euch nicht: Black Women’s Organizing in Germany
Peggy Piesche (editor)
Peggy Piesche brings writing by Audre Lorde together with the perspectives of Black women engaged in organizing in Germany. Essays, poetry, recollections, and dialogue trace the relationships through which a movement found language, community, and political force.
Quand les racines chantent
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.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingRace and German Identity: Biracial Descendants of Military Occupation, 1920–1970Record cover · original image unavailable
Race and German Identity: Biracial Descendants of Military Occupation, 1920–1970
Julia Roos
Book manuscript on biracial descendants of military occupation, 1920–1970.
Rassismus: Strukturelle Probleme brauchen strukturelle Lösungen!
Natasha A. Kelly
An introduction to structural racism and the need for changes beyond individual attitudes.
Rassismusforschung: Handbuch für Wissenschaft, Studium und Praxis
Manuela Bojadžijev, Paul Mecheril and Matthias Quent (editors); Patrice G. Poutrus and Joshua Kwesi Aikins (contributors)
A reference handbook surveying theories, research methods and empirical fields in German-language racism research. Poutrus and Aikins contribute to the volume.
Remapping Black Germany: New Perspectives on Afro-German History, Politics, and Culture
Sara Lennox (editor)
An interdisciplinary collection on Afro-German history, politics and culture, connecting historical research with Black German activism, feminist thought and questions of belonging.
Resonanzen – Schwarzes Literaturfestival: Eine Dokumentation
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.
Restituez à l’Afrique ses objets de Pouvoir, de Culte et d’Art ! – Reconstituons notre mémoire collective africaine !
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.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingRoses for AngelaRecord cover · original image unavailable
Roses for Angela
Jamele Watkins
Working book project on East German transnational solidarity with Angela Davis.
Saint Maurice in Cranach’s workshop: representation and historical evidence
BGHRA historical resource guide
This painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop depicts Saint Maurice as a Black armoured figure. It provides an opportunity to study the visual place of Blackness in German religious culture. The museum relates the image to a reliquary statue in Halle. The painting is catalogued here as a representation. Its subject, possible models, and evidence about historical individuals must be distinguished.
Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop, Saint Maurice, c. 1520–25. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Eva F. Kollsman, 2005, object 2006.469. · Image source ↗
Sankofa BRD: Eine Dokumentation Schwarzer deutscher Kulturproduktion zur Zeit des Mauerfalls
Philipp Khabo Koepsell (editor)
Interviews, archival documents and photo collages record Black German cultural production and activism around the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Schwarz. Deutsch. Weiblich.: Warum Feminismus mehr als Geschlechtergerechtigkeit fordern muss
Natasha A. Kelly
Kelly connects Black women’s histories and personal experience with a critique of exclusion within feminism.
Schwarze Frauen der Welt: Marion Kraft on Europe and Migration
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.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingSchwarze Wurzeln: Afro-deutsche Familiengeschichten von 1884 bis 1950Record cover · original image unavailable
Schwarze Wurzeln: Afro-deutsche Familiengeschichten von 1884 bis 1950
Katharina Oguntoye
Katharina Oguntoye
Schwarzer Feminismus: Grundlagentexte
Natasha A. Kelly (editor)
Foundational Black feminist texts in German translation trace the connections between race, gender, class and political struggle.
Sharon Dodua Otoo’s So, in etwa, ist es geschehen: History on the Journey
Sharon Dodua Otoo
Sharon Dodua Otoo’s new novel brings family remembrance and the pressures of the present together on a journey to the Baltic coast.
Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out
May Opitz (May Ayim), Katharina Oguntoye and Dagmar Schultz (editors)
History, poetry, interviews, and personal testimony meet in Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out, the English translation of Farbe bekennen. The collection places Black women’s voices at the center of German history and
Sisters and Souls 2: Inspirationen durch May Ayim
Natasha A. Kelly (editor)
A new generation of writers reflects on May Ayim’s continuing influence and Black community futures.
Sisters and Souls: Inspirationen von May Ayim
Natasha A. Kelly (editor)
A substantial anthology of Black women’s writing about May Ayim’s influence, political memory and creative possibilities.
Teza
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.
The Afropean Contemporary: Literatur- und Gesellschaftsmagazin
Philipp Khabo Koepsell (editor)
An Afrofuturist literary and cultural magazine in book form, bringing together Black creative voices.
The Comet – 150 Years W. E. B. Du Bois: Afrofuturism 2.0
Natasha A. Kelly (editor)
An anthology connecting Du Bois’s speculative fiction with contemporary Black visions of the future.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingThe Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and Its LegacyRecord cover · original image unavailable
The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and Its Legacy
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.
The Little Book of Big Visions: Art and the Worlds We Can Imagine
Sandrine Micossé-Aikins and Sharon Dodua Otoo (editors)
The Little Book of Big Visions: How to Be an Artist and Revolutionize the World gathers perspectives on Black artistic practice and the possibilities that art can open. Edited by…
Theodor Michael’s Deutsch sein und schwarz dazu: A Black German Life
Theodor Wonja Michael
Theodor Michael traces a life spanning the Weimar Republic, Nazi persecution and forced labor, and postwar Germany. Family separation, work in entertainment, and his later engagement with Black German communities connect personal memory with a wider history.
this is not about sadness
Olumide Popoola
Two women in London build a friendship across differences of age, background and painful memory.
Tina Campt’s Image Matters: Family Photographs and Belonging
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
Tina Campt’s Other Germans: Race, Memory, and Life Stories
Tina M. Campt
In Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich, Tina Campt brings historical analysis into conversation with the recollections of two Black Germans who lived through National Social
Tupoka Ogette’s Trotzdem zuhause: A Life in Search of Home
Tupoka Ogette
Tupoka Ogette’s memoir brings childhood, motherhood, racism, and belonging into a personal account of making a home.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingÜber Rassismus und Widerstand. Eine US-amerikanisch-deutsch-äthiopische LebensgeschichteRecord cover · original image unavailable
Über Rassismus und Widerstand. Eine US-amerikanisch-deutsch-äthiopische Lebensgeschichte
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.
Umkämpftes Asyl: Vom Nachkriegsdeutschland bis in die Gegenwart
Patrice G. Poutrus
A historical study of asylum in postwar Germany, tracing public controversies, refugee reception and the political meanings of protection.
Un_Masking Difference: Literary Voices from Behind the Mask
Natasha A. Kelly (editor)
International literary voices consider masks, difference and the experience of the pandemic.
Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa
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.
Von Luanda und Maputo nach Ost-Berlin: Erinnerungen afrikanischer Werktätiger an die DDR
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.
Vous avez dit Démocratie? Le processus de Démocratisation au Cameroun
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.
Was hat denn Goethe in Afrika verloren?
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.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingWeimar through the Lens of Gender: Prostitution Reform, Woman’s Emancipation, and German Democracy, 1919–33Record cover · original image unavailable
Weimar through the Lens of Gender: Prostitution Reform, Woman’s Emancipation, and German Democracy, 1919–33
Julia Roos
A political and social history connecting prostitution reform, women’s activism and the contradictions of Weimar democracy. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingWer hat Angst vorm schwarzen Mann: Mein Leben in DeutschlandRecord cover · original image unavailable
Wer hat Angst vorm schwarzen Mann: Mein Leben in Deutschland
Gert Schramm
Schramm’s memoir connects childhood under Nazism, imprisonment in Buchenwald at fifteen and life after 1945. The account of a Black German survivor offers a first-person perspective on racist exclusion, survival and remembrance.
Wettkampf um die Globalisierung Afrikas
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.
When We Speak of Nothing
Olumide Popoola
Friendship and queer Black coming of age connect London and Nigeria in this novel.
BGHRA DIGITAL ARCHIVE · Book / readingWho Is a German? Historical and Modern Perspectives on Africans in GermanyRecord cover · original image unavailable
Who Is a German? Historical and Modern Perspectives on Africans in Germany
Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. (editor)
Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. (editor)
Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht: (K)Erben des Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv deutsche Sprache
Susan Arndt and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard (editors)
A critical reference work examining colonial histories within German language, knowledge and everyday racial thinking.
Wolfgang Mattheuer / Stan Douglas
Paola Malavassi (editor); Joshua Kwesi Aikins (contributor)
An exhibition catalogue linking landscape, gardening and social politics. Includes a contribution by Joshua Kwesi Aikins.
Yara-Colette Lemke Muniz de Faria’s Zwischen Fürsorge und Ausgrenzung: Black German Childhood after 1945
Yara-Colette Lemke Muniz de Faria
This study examines how postwar German institutions and welfare organizations approached children born to German mothers and Black American soldiers. It follows the tensions between care, exclusion, institutional separation, and efforts at integration.