The »African Quarter« in Berlin

Credits: Signs of the City, urban dialogues, Philipp Auer, 2008

There is a borough called »African Quarter« in Berlin. 

Here, a large number of streets have names are related to the German colonization in Africa. These names are now criticized as discriminatory remnants of colonialism and are part of a larger public discourse in Berlin and Germany. 

An article in »The Guardian« from April 2017 gives profound information about this context. 

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/apr/04/germanys-other-brutal-history-should-berlins-african-quarter-be-renamed