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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social

This is very cool! After 30 years trying to change the name of "Moors Street" in Berlin, they've renamed it after Anton Wilhelm Amo, the Akan philosopher from present-day Ghana who became a significant Enlightenment philosopher in Germany in the first half of the 1700s.

aug 19, 2025, 1:04 pm • 22 5

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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social

It's also a subway station right in the center of the city, very high visibility to tourists and locals alike. It's a huge win for memory culture in a country that still strongly resists facing its colonial history in Africa

aug 19, 2025, 1:07 pm • 3 0 • view