Four current opportunities connect Black German history with decolonial public memory, community archives and educational work. Dates and participation details are drawn from the organizers’ public announcements.
November 1: Unlearning Empire — Decolonizing Europe’s Capitals
Decolonize Berlin and HKW’s heimaten network · Sunday, November 1, 2026 · 4:30–6:30 p.m. Berlin time · Berlin and online
This panel brings together perspectives from Berlin, Brussels, London and Paris to consider shared decolonial demands, transnational solidarity and lessons from different local movements. The program begins with a poetic intervention by h.n. Lyonga. The event language is English, with interpretation into German and French.
Event information and registration →
Through November 1: Support the Anton Wilhelm Amo Heritage Audio Archive
Anton Wilhelm Amo Heritage Society · Public voting closes November 1, 2026
The bilingual, Black-led Anton Wilhelm Amo Heritage Audio Archive and audiowalk connects oral histories, archival research and community knowledge across Germany, Ghana and the Netherlands. The project is included in the 2026 DigAMus public vote. Its open-access, translocal approach offers an important model for community stewardship of Black history and accessible digital public humanities.
Learn about the audio archive →
Participate in the public vote →
November 12–January 24: ADEFRA, NEID & Queer Reads Library
Opening Thursday, November 12, 2026, at 6 p.m. · Exhibition November 13, 2026–January 24, 2027 · Galerie Nord, Berlin
This exhibition brings together queer-feminist groups, magazines and archives, including ADEFRA, NEID and Queer Reads Library. For BGHRA, it is especially relevant to the preservation of Black German feminist organizing, community publishing and alternative archives. The accompanying program includes workshops, artist conversations, a curatorial tour and a closing memorial event.
November 26: Educational comic on Mnyaka Sururu Mboro
Initiative Perspektivwechsel · Thursday, November 26, 2026 · 5:30–8 p.m. Berlin time · Berlin Global Village and online · Free with registration
The educational comic Erinnern heißt bewegen. Mboros Versprechen presents part of Tanzanian activist Mnyaka Sururu Mboro’s life and his work for the return of ancestral human remains to Tanzania and the renaming of colonial street names in Germany. It is designed for teachers and political educators working on German colonialism and anticolonial movements.
Program information and registration →
BGHRA’s assessment: Together, these programs show how Black-led archives, public history, education and cultural organizing can make marginalized histories accessible while connecting local memory work across borders.
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