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Berlin authorities have announced they are to rename Mohrenstraße (“Moor Street”) in the city’s Mitte district after the country’s first black philosopher, Anton Wilhelm Amo. The decision follows years of protest by postcolonial campaigners, including historians and ethnologists, who had criticised the street name as racist. Campaigners welcomed the decision on Friday, which comes in the wake of a worldwide ...

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