Decolonial Tours

The decolonial tour in the African Quarter was great. We were a very small group and because of that the tour was very personal and all questions were answered. I am particularly reminded of the realization that “garden colonies” are also related to colonialist thinking and, irritatingly, are sometimes still named after former colonies. Thank you very much for the great city tour in Wedding!

Kind regards,

Nele

Dear Justice,

hope you are well!

I wanted to give you some feedback on the city tour with our volunteer group on 7/31. give

The city tour went down really well with the participants – many named it as the highlight of the day and also mentioned again at the end of the course that they thought it was good. The participants liked that you were approachable between stations, even if they were still very reserved since it was their first day of the seminar. The content just super built on what we had heard in the morning as an introduction to colonial continuities. I found the guided tour even better than the one with our unit, although the contents were the same.

In any case, thank you very much once again! For next year (July) I will be happy to ask you again.

Warm regards,

Susanne

“I was recently led by Justice and Desmond on a tour of the African Quarter in Wedding. Each street in this neighborhood has its own history. What I particularly liked about this tour is that the guides took a very fact-based approach and left it up to each participant to form their own opinion about these past events in German colonial history. Both Justice and Desmond were open to questions and willingly shared their knowledge and perspective. This tour has awakened my curiosity and I now want to explore this part of Berlin even more. I highly recommend this tour!”

“I really enjoyed our tour. I know the others were very excited as well, because we talked a bit afterwards to get to know each other. I can only speak for myself, because I knew next to nothing about the “African Quarter” before the tour, except that I had seen the name on a map. So it was very enlightening to walk through the neighborhood with you and see the many vestiges of the colonial past – some kitschy, some insane, all amazingly embedded in everyday life. For that I would have liked to do the tour even longer (but maybe not during a heat wave!). Overall very enriching and stimulating! I look forward to seeing how the company develops and hope to do another tour at some point. Thank you for doing this important work!”