This book explores the largely unexamined history of Africans who lived, studied, and worked in the German Democratic Republic. African students started coming

Describes the lived experiences of African students in communist East Germany to shed new light on the history of Germany, Africa, and decolonization

The presence of Africans in the German Democratic Republic is very rarely thought of in connection with the experience of exile. Instead, Africans in the GDR ar

Examining Afro-German artists’ use of Afrofuturist tropes to critique German racial history The term Afrofuturism was first coined in the 1990s to describe Af

This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They