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Title Exiled in East Germany Life Stories of Malawian and South African Freedom Fighters during the Cold War
Full text http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/29861; http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/29236
Date 2024
Author(s) Pampuch, Sebastian
Abstract The publication of this work was supported by the Open Access Publication Fund of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. - 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 are predominantly viewed through the prism of educational and labor migration. While such research has undoubtedly produced valuable insights, it often fails to adequately account for the implicit Eurocentrism, methodological nationalism, and anti-communist bias inherent in Western knowledge production. This study offers a different approach. Through biographical portrayal, it unfolds the life stories of African freedom fighters who lived in exile in the GDR and, ultimately, remained in reunified Germany, with the main case study being a Malawian activist who was expelled from East to West Berlin. Recounting his experiences along with those of some South African exiles, chief among them a former medical worker for the ANC's armed wing, the study ethnographically reconstructs the multiple entanglements between the 'Second' and 'Third' worlds from the vantage point of the politically displaced within the concrete historical contexts of African decolonization, the struggle against the Malawian Banda dictatorship, and the struggle against South African apartheid.
Subject(s) Exil; Malawi; Südafrika; Deutschland (DDR); Exile; Malawi; South Africa; East Germany (GDR); 940 Geschichte Europas; ddc:940
Language eng
Publisher Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Type of publication book; doc-type:book; publishedVersion
Format application/pdf
Rights (CC BY 4.0) Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Identifier urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/29861-1; 9783111203782; 10.1515/9783111203782
Repository Berlin - Humboldt University of Berlin
Added to C-A: 2024-08-20;15:29:22