Steven Robins’ long-term project of tracing his family’s past from South Africa to Berlin and back has recently taken a productive new turn with the opening of an extraordinary exhibition at the Kreuzberg-Friedrichshain Museum in Berlin.
The exhibition, conceived by Stellenbosch University Anthropologist Robins and the …
In the summer and autumn of 2015, 1.1 million people arrived in Germany with the aim of seeking asylum. The majority of these were refugees from the war in Syria, many others came from Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Western Balkan.
The German asylum system forces newly arrived refugees to …
In the first installment of the interview Reinhart Kößler speaks about the history of solidarity activism with the liberation struggles of Southern Africa in the former West Germany. He draws partly on his personal experience as an activist. In the second installment, Heike Becker and Reinhart Kößler discuss issues of …
Some readers of my recent article, ‘Auschwitz to Rwanda: the link between science, colonialism and genocide’ will be interested to learn more about the harrowing connections between colonial science, African and European mass atrocities. An excellent starting point for this is a reading of Steven Robins’ Letters of Stone. From …
Significant links connect racial science in colonial southern Africa with the holocaust of the European Jews. Colonial racial science also contributed to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
Read my article at The Conversation.
The article has been republished by THE HUFFINGTONPOST (30 January 2017), the Mail & Guardian (1 February 2017 …