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African Liberation Struggles - Mut und Widerstand: Die Frauen des Mau-Mau-Kampfes
Im Rahmen des Black History Month 2026 wird Dr. Rahab Njeri, Historikerin, einen Vortrag zu afrikanischen Befreiungskämpfen aus einer lange marginalisierten Perspektive halten: der Perspektive der Frauen. In der historischen Überlieferung wurden ihre Beiträge häufig marginalisiert, verkleinert oder vollständig aus dem kollektiven Gedächtnis ausgeschlossen, obwohl Frauen zentrale Träger*innen des antikolonialen Widerstands waren.

Am Beispiel der Mau-Mau-Befreiungsbewegung in Kenia zeigt Dr. Rahab Njeri auf, wie Frauen aktiv am Widerstand beteiligt waren. Sie organisierten Gemeinschaften, stellten die Versorgung sowie den Informationsaustausch sicher, wirkten an strategischen Entscheidungsprozessen mit und leisteten damit einen wesentlichen Beitrag zum Kampf um Unabhängigkeit – unter Bedingungen massiver kolonialer Gewalt und gesellschaftlicher Einschränkungen. Die Einbindung dieser Perspektiven erweitert das Verständnis afrikanischer Befreiungskämpfe grundlegend. Sie macht sichtbar, dass Widerstand, Solidarität und politische Transformation ohne die Handlungsmacht/ agency von Frauen nicht zu denken sind. Die Geschichten der Mau-Mau-Frauen fordern dazu auf, dominante Narrative des African Liberation struggles/ antikolonialen Kampfes kritisch zu hinterfragen und die Geschichte des Mau-Mau-Widerstands neu zu lesen.

African Liberation Struggles - Courage and Resistance: Women in the Mau Mau Struggle

As part of Black History Month 2026, Dr. Rahab Njeri, historian, will deliver a talk on African liberation struggles from a perspective that has long been marginalized: the perspective of women. In historical narratives, women’s contributions have often been silenced, sidelined, or entirely excluded from collective memory, despite the fact that women were central actors in anticolonial resistance and liberation struggles.

Using the Mau Mau liberation movement in Kenya as a case study, Dr. Rahab Njeri highlights how women actively participated in the struggle. They organized communities, ensured the provision of food and the circulation of information, took part in strategic decision-making, and thus made a significant contribution to the fight for independence—under conditions of severe colonial violence and social constraint.
Including these perspectives fundamentally deepens our understanding of African liberation struggles. It makes clear that resistance, solidarity, and political transformation are inconceivable without the agency of women. The histories of Mau Mau women invite us to critically question dominant narratives of Liberation struggle and to reread the history of the Mau Mau resistance in a more inclusive and just way.

Für: Alle Veranstalter: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
| Treffpunkt: RJM, 1. Etage, Yellow Room | Teilnahme frei. zzgl. Eintritt. -

On 25 February 2026, the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum hosts an online conversation as part of the program “The Future Is Indigenous”, alongside the exhibition AMAZÔNIA by Sebastião Salgado.

In November 2025, Belém, in the Brazilian Amazon region, hosted COP30, the UN-Climate conference. Alongside the official summit, a People’s Summit brought together civil-society groups, social movements, and community organizations to discuss climate justice beyond the official negotiations.

Speakers Barbara Marcel, Camila Nobrega, Maureen Santos and Waleska Queiroz will offer a critical post-COP30 reflection on what continues after the summit and discuss how socio-environmental justice struggles continue beyond the first UN climate conference in the Brazilian Amazon, and how images and media are produced and shape the stories the world hears.

What visual and transmedia practices can generate counter-narratives shaped by the people most affected?

Talk curated by Barbara Marcel and Camila Nobrega. This event is part of Territories of Knowledge (2023–25), a research project co-developed with the Spore Initiative (Berlin).

Language: English, with live interpretation from Portuguese.
free

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Barbara Marcel is a visual artist, filmmaker, and researcher based in Brazil and Germany. Her work bridges art and research, focusing on socio-environmental justice through decolonial feminist lenses, the Amazon, and transnational extractivism. Since 2023, she has co-led the project Territories of Knowledge with Camila Nobrega, linking collectives in Belém and Berlin around climate justice and territorial rights in the context of COP30.

Camila Nobrega is a transmedia journalist and researcher based between Brazil and Germany, using feminist and queer decolonial methods to investigate infrastructure megaprojects connecting Europe and Latin America. Since 2023, they have co-led the project Territories of Knowledge with Barbara Marcel.

Maureen Santos is a political scientist, ecologist and climate justice activist based in Rio de Janeiro coordinating FASE’s Policies and Alternatives Unit (NUPA), which works on public policy and climate-justice alternatives. She is a professor of the International Relations Institute at PUC-Rio University. She has followed UN Climate negotiations for many years and is involved in the People’s Summit process linked to the COP30.

Waleska Queiroz is a Black Amazonian sanitary and environmental engineer focusing on climate justice. She has a long experience in socio-environmental projects at the intersection of climate, territories, public policy, and advocacy, emphasizing race, gender, popular participation, and anti-racist adaptation within the climate agenda. She co-founded the Observatório das Baixadas and is recognized as a 21st-century climate leader.

Für: Alle Veranstalter: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
| Teilnahme frei. | Rahmenprogramm zu: „DIE ZUKUNFT IST INDIGEN“, 01.11.2025 - 15.03.2026

In dieser Mitmachführung für Familien zeigen wir euch verschiedene Spiele und Spielzeuge der Welt in unserer Dauerausstellung. Ihr erfahrt nicht nur, in welchem Rahmen sie entstanden sind, sondern auch, wie sie gespielt werden.

Die Mitmachführung ist für Kinder kostenlos. Für begleitende Erwachsene kostet die Führung 2,- Euro zzgl. Eintritt.

Die Teilnehmer*innenzahl ist begrenzt. Die Kinder erhalten am Tag der Führung an der Kasse einen Aufkleber, der zur Teilnahme an der Führung berechtigt.

Für: Kinder ab 5 Jahren Veranstalter: Museumsdienst Köln
| Reihe: Familienführung | Treffpunkt: Kasse | Teilnahme frei. zzgl. Eintritt. -