Anticolonial city tours with Mnyaka Sururu Mboro

The memory of the crimes of National Socialism is marked by the death of the last contemporary witnesses: Fewer and fewer survivors are able to give direct accounts of the horrors of dictatorship, war of conquest and extermination.

It is still more possible to remember with the contemporary witnesses of European colonialism in Africa. But even those who could tell us about British, French and Belgian colonialism from their own experience are now elderly.One of these rare contemporary witnesses is the teacher and activist Mnyaka Sururu Mboro from Tanzania, who lives in Berlin. He personally experienced British rule over Tanganyika. Mboro can also tell us about the previous colonial rule of the Germans, who had his ancestor executed after a resistance action.

Since 2005, Mnyaka Sururu Mboro has been guiding interested people of all ages through the historical center of Berlin and the African Quarter in Wedding. In doing so, he familiarizes Berliners better with their post-colonial city, which he has actively helped to shape: the renaming of colonial streets in Berlin to honor African/Afrro-diasporic resistance is due in no small part to his persistent commitment.



DATES MITTE

• Meeting point: M-Straße underground station, Wilhelmstraße exit
  

• 11.10.2025
  
• 08.11.2025
  
• 06.12.2025
  

Dates African Quarter

Meeting point: U-Bhf. Afrikanische Straße, exit Swakopmunder Straße

• 15.10.202522.11.2025
  

Note: The city tours with Mnyaka Sururu Mboro take place as part of the "Witness Walks" project by Berlin Postkolonial e.V., a member of the heimaten network. Berlin Postkolonial is also a partner of the model projectDecolonial culture of remembrance in the city. Together with the Stadtmuseum Berlin, the project presented the joint decentralized exhibition "Decolonial - what remains?" from November 2024 to September 2025.

The heimaten network is an initiative of Haus der Kulturen der Welt as part of heimaten, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a resolution of the German Bundestag.