Henning Melber
he-mel.bsky.social
Henning Melber
@he-mel.bsky.social

So-called scholar activist

Henning Melber is a German political scientist and sociologist. He is a German-Namibian and Swedish Africanist and political activist.

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Political science 35%
Sociology 14%

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Da stellt sich mithin die frage ob nicht definitions- und verbotswütige Deutsche das Unsicherheitsgefühl jüdischer Menschen verursachen, und das vieler anderer leute

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💥New from me in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
“Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism”—presenting colonialism as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology”
jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...
One Day, Britain’s Monuments Will Fall
Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past bu...
jacobin.com

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Namibia's local and regional elections as another test case: "as we head to the polls, perhaps we should worry less about who wins and more about whether those who win are actually ready to govern."
www.observer24.com.na/turning-poin...
TURNING POINT | Guided democracy – Windhoek Observer
www.observer24.com.na

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True, sadly so.

Until then politicians refused to have body guards and Prime Minister Persson even thereafter ignored security rules by preferring to walk from his flat to parliament (in the company of one assistant only) instead of being driven in a car. - Those were the days...

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„Kolonialismus ver-lernen:
Die Ausstellung BURIED MEMORIES als Akt interkultureller Trauerarbeit mit den Mitteln des Museums.“ Im Bezirksmuseum Neukölln @matthiashenkel.bsky.social im Rahmen des 25-jährigen Jubiläums der Städtepartnerschaft Berlin/Windhoek.

@decolonizeberlin.bsky.social

"Even in one of the most stable democracies in the world, the threat of extremist violence is transforming political representation."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In Sweden, online hate and anti-immigrant extremism are driving women out of public life | Martin Gelin
A leading liberal politician has quit in fear of her physical safety. It is a crushing setback for democracy in one of the world’s most open societies, says journalist Martin Gelin
www.theguardian.com

"The pope, with a following of 1.4 billion Catholics, is arguably the most influential American (with dual citizenship of Peru), although Trump claims that mantle. Leo and Ramaphosa met and agreed on the need to summon a new global spirit of common humanity."
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Pope backs G20 values at meeting with Ramaphosa, while Trump dumps on SA
A day after US President Donald Trump declared a US boycott of the upcoming G20 Summit, Pope Leo XIV endorsed the G20’s positions on debt and inequality as resonant with his papacy.
www.dailymaverick.co.za

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On Germany's relapse into colonial memory failure
globalbar.se/2025/11/germ...
Germany’s colonial memory failure
The German Kaiserreich was at the beginning of the 20th century ...
globalbar.se

Cyril Ramaphosa message to Pope Leo XIV at Vatican meeting: 'Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability'
"To many, it seems easier to fund wars than to invest in peace."
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Cyril Ramaphosa message to Pope Leo XIV at Vatican meeting: ‘Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability’
In Vatican meeting with Pope Leo XIV on Saturday 8 November, President Cyril Ramaphosa called for global solidarity and a spirit of Ubuntu to tackle the pressing issues of inequality, conflict, and en...
www.dailymaverick.co.za

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Tim Drygala, politisch engagiert im „Team Freiheit“ von Frauke Petry und Jura-Professor in Leipzig, lässt uns an seinen Gewaltfantasien teilhaben. Die Uni Leipzig sollte ein Disziplinarverfahren prüfen.

Henning Melber's (Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala) opening statement at the seminar Narratives of Power: Memory Politics in Russia, Germany, and the Contemporary World , held on October 28th 2025.
historianswithoutborders.fi/en/2025/11/g...
Germany’s colonial memory failure
PhD Henning Melber's (Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala) opening statements at the seminar Narratives of Power: Memory Politics in Russia, Germany, and the Contemporary World , held on October 28th 202...
historianswithoutborders.fi

"The youth of Namibia have the privilege of freedom that earlier generations fought for. The least we can do is honour that freedom by treating one another with dignity."
www.observer24.com.na/young-observ...
YOUNG OBSERVER | When ignorance dresses up as a joke  – Windhoek Observer
www.observer24.com.na

”In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.” (Albert Camus, *7/11/1913-4/1/1960)