PRESS RELEASE #01:
Hashtag: #UnitedWeRise
For the 16th consecutive year, the “Committee for an African Monument in Berlin” (KADIB), represented by the “African / Black Community” (ABC), invites the general public to join us for our annual Memorial March in commemoration of the African / Black (S)heroes / Heroines and victims of the Maafa. "Maafa" (Kiswaheli) means "The Great Destruction" in Africa: Enslavement, Colonialism and Genocides, Neo-Colonialism and Ecocides, Nazism and Racism.
DATE: Saturday, 26.02.2022
TIME: 11:00 am to 16:00 pm
LOCATION: WilhelmStrasse 92, 10117 Berlin
As every year, the Memorial March begins here with wreath-laying ceremony and speeches. At the invitation of German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the infamous "Berlin Africa Conference" began on 15 November, 1884 in Berlin (Reichskanzlerpalais, Wilhelm-Strasse 77) and ended there on 26 February, 1885. Berlin, as the capital of Germany, was therefore purposely chosen as the location for the Memorial March, because of its colonial legacies, but also because of its involvement in Africa's current plights.
The Memorial March ends with a rally at the Humboldt Forum.
#AfrikaIsBleeding: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea-Conakry, Guinea-Bissau, Libya, Mali, Namibia, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Uganda, Zimbabwe, to name but a few.
