Germany's other brutal history: should Berlin's 'African Quarter' be renamed?

In a neighbourhood where street names recall colonies and those who ruled them, activists are calling for Germany to confront its violent imperial pastThe cool blue tunnel of Afrikanische Strasse U-Bahn station is embellished with enormous colour photographs: a grinning giraffe; a herd of zebras on the savannah; a pair of meerkats. The scene they set feels very far away: above ground, Afrikanisches Viertel (the “African Quarter”) is just an ordinary Berlin neighbourhood of modernist