Exiled in East Germany

Life Stories of Malawian and South African Freedom Fighters during the Cold War

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Pampuch, Sebastian

BuchGebunden

308 Seiten

Englisch

Oldenbourgerschienen am22.04.2024

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.mehr

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KlappentextThe 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.

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ISBN/GTIN978-3-11-120148-1

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartGebunden

Verlag

Oldenbourg

Erscheinungsjahr2024

Erscheinungsdatum22.04.2024

ReiheDialectics of the Global

Reihen-Nr.18

Seiten308 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch