09.05.2024 | Online
Transnational alliances: Reparations & repair
Online discussion as part of the Decolonial Europe Day
Transnational alliances: Reparations & repair (panel discussion in English)
Decolonizing Europe will not happen by itself. With the case of Namibia and Germany at the crossroads of a universalist debate, we build on the struggle of Nama and Ovaherero to create a precedent for reparations and develop a view of the possibilities of a transnational movement for repair that reaches beyond national borders.
Using the refusal of Germany as well as the resistance that connects the communities in Namibia with solidary groups in Germany, we discuss on how to attack the colonial rule and divide: (How) could alliances emerge between different places of the world, shaken by (German) colonial repercussions and expand towards the metropoles? At the same time, we want to shed light on the psychosocial defense mechanisms and dynamics within the society of the perpetrators' descendants, which lead to the responsibility for uncovering the crimes and their reverberations for decolonization, repeatedly falling back on the descendants of the survivors.
Online discussion as part of the Decolonial Europe Day
Speakers:
Sima Luipert (NTLA)
Kodzo Gavua (University of Ghana)
Marianne Ballé Moudoumbou (PAWLO-masoso)
Facilitation: Julia Manek (medico international)