Jack Watson’s Reviews > Mapping Black Europe: Monuments, Markers, Memories > Status Update

black rome:
actions in the piazzas #love
colonization in eritrea ? we don’t talk abt that enough. snd italians don’t either !

the dogali obelisk for example

wish i remembered more xx

so i rushed through the end of this book bc i had to leave berlin. which means ill write what i remember but i don’t have the names anymore unfortunately

sorry black warsaw you didn’t get the most thorough read.

black oslo:
the kongolandsbyen ? crazy install
the murder of a young PAD boy in the neighborhood between gare and botanical garden

Black Luxembourg:
- 2021 LISER study on Luxembourgish identity and race
- three orgs: Lëtz Rise Up, Finkapé, and Richtung22
- street renaming + action against Nicolas Cito fountain
- luxembourg’s military presence in DRC -> viewed as a life cycle story for young Luxembourgers
- Jacques Leurs
- “colonial outsiders” (lux, norway, poland) still benefit from colonial structures
- Cape Verdean presence in Lux

black london:
- Brixton’s windrush square during BLM
- memorials in Hackney for the Windrush generation
- memorial to Cherry Groce in Brixton
- Henry Sylvester Williams and John Archer -> Pan Africanism in London
- Mary Seacole Monument and controversy w Florence Nightingale

black brussels:
- belgian “white amnesia” forgetting black radicalized resistance
- neighborhood of Matonge -> lumumba square and mural at porte de namur (where the African House for DRC students was located)
- Paul Panda Farnana, Congolese student in Belgium whose activism resulted in Belgian policy of isolation
- “repressive tolerance” and the lameness of lumumba square

black berlin:
- african quarter in wedding and renaming of “garden colonies” to moreso kleingartenverein & wedding renaissance
- renaming streets notably M street
- May Ayim Audre Lorde luv
- african asylum seekers at oranienplatz