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: Akono Verlag

Present-day echoes of telegraphy between Nauen, Kamina and Windhoek

During the era of German colonialism, wireless telegraphy served as an instrument of colonial control. Various aspects of this history and its legacies are addressed in Lene Albrecht’s novel Weiße Flecken (White Spots), in the workbook From Windhoek to Kamina to Nauen, and in the exhibition “Signals of Power” at the Brandenburg Museum in Potsdam.

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Max Lobe
Vertraulichkeiten (Confidentialities)

In Max Lobe‘s novel Vertraulichkeiten (Confidentialities, not yet translated into English), a nameless first-person narrator who lives in Switzerland travels to Cameroon, where he grew up, and in a village somewhere on the road between Duala and Jaunde, an old woman tells him about the Cameroonian struggle for independence.

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