Adetoun Kueppers-Adebisi

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Adetoun Kueppers-Adebisi (born March 20, 1969 in Lagos ) is a Nigerian-born German engineer, media and gender activist, diversity coach, publicist and author. As President, she heads AFROTAK TV cyberNomads - The Black German Database, Social Media Network, Media and Education Archive - Africa Germany.

Life

Küppers-Adebisi grew up in Lagos and moved to Germany at the age of 12. In 2002 she finished her studies in industrial engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne. From 2002 to 2004 she and Afrotak TV cyberNomads organized the Black Media Congress Berlin three times as a pilot project of the Federal Agency for Civic Education from the perspective of German migrants and black Germans. The first congress took place at the Goethe-Institut Berlin under the title “Soul-Power and cyberSpace”. At the second congress in 2003, Europe-wide model projects were presented in the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin under the title “Afropean Best Practice” . And under the title “From Berlin Africa Conference 1884 to Afrofuturism 2004”, she hosted the third congress in 2004 in the House of World Cultures in Berlin. As co-initiator of the “May Ayim Award - the 1st Black German International Literature Prize”, she was able to moderate the literature prize gala event “Black Germania” in the House of World Cultures in Berlin in 2004 under the patronage of UNESCO Germany (2010 even a Berlin street was renamed May-Ayim-Ufer). In 2009 she was the media advisor for the African Union at the African Union Regional Consulting Conference in Paris and became Vice President of the AU Diaspora Preparatory Committee.

Küppers-Adebisi has been a founding board member of the African Union African Diaspora Germany 6th Region e. V. In 2011 she worked for the Berlin Brandenburg Migration Council as the coordinator of the media and culture areas of the “Berlin / Brandenburg State Action Plan against Racism and Ethnic Discrimination” and wrote the recommendations of civil society to the Berlin Senate. In 2012 she finished her advanced training to become a "Diversity Coordinator for State Institutions and Civil Society".

In 2012, together with Michael Küppers-Adebisi, she completed the decolonial play “The Reichstag - Kafka in the reMIX” with a grant from the State Theater NRW.

In 2013 she became a founding member of the federal network "The African Network Germany" and spokeswoman for the media and media professionals (TANG). For her work as an activist and her civil society engagement, she has received numerous local, national and international awards (including: from the Berlin Senate, the Federal Government and the European Union). The Black Heritage Magazine honored her in 2010 as one of the 50 most important African Germans . As an elected citizens' deputy, she is also involved in the integration committee of the Berlin-Pankow district.

Küppers-Adebisi is currently a research fellow at the Center for Gender Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin and is working on her doctoral thesis with a focus on economics from a cultural studies perspective on waste management and neo-colonialism under the aspects of race and gender ".

Publications

As an author

  • 2010: "Negritude - Black Global Liberation Movements of the 20th & 21st Century", in: Rassismus auf gut Deutsch - Ed .: Nduka-Agwu / Hornscheidt
  • 2011: "Music revolt, migration & politics with a focus on Black Music Germany", in: Migranten in deutscher Politik - Ed .: Marvin Oppong
  • 2012: “Diaspora - Faces of the Africa Renaissance - Africa Pictures Germany”, In: FREITEXT Culture & Society Magazine
  • Open letter - "Against racism in the media and in children's and young people's books", In: Migazin Migration in Deutschland - Online
  • 2013: "Cultural Interdependencies of Racism & Sexism (Dok_torandinnen-Workshop)", in: Gender-Bulletin - Ed .: Humboldt-Universität Berlin

As editor

  • 2004: TheBlackBook - Black Present in Germany (Middle Ages to the Present), edited with Anti-Discrimination Office Koeln
  • 2011: Post-qualification & training needs for African diaspora & migrants, with service agency post-qualification (SANQ)
  • 2012: film, 12 min. "Ballotelli - Media against Racism", publisher: European Union & RBB Berlin
  • 2013: Short film, "Metamorphosis - Effects of Cultural Stereotypes", 4 min., Https://vimeo.com/70727003
  • 2013: Migration and Racism in the German Education System, Feature, 9 min, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1JVsc3HorI , AFROTAK TV cyberNomads

Awards

  • 2004 May Ayim Award / Award by UNESCO Germany - Award German project to remember the slave trade and its abolition - Germany
  • 2005 European Human Rights Report - Named an exemplary anti-racist cultural project in Germany
  • 2008 Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance - Award for Civil Society Commitment Berlin
  • 2009 Advice for Democracy and Tolerance - Respekt Award for exemplary civil society engagement Berlin
  • 2010 World Diversity Leadership Congress Vienna - Diversity Management Project Europe award
  • 2010 INTERkultur Congress - Exemplary Concept Integration Culture Bochum
  • 2011 European Union - Exemplary Project Integration Media and Education Europe
  • 2011 Holocaust Congress / Federal Agency for Civic Education - Berlin award for exemplary coming to terms with the past
  • 2011 House of World Cultures - Audience Award Short Film Multi-Media Competition Berlin
  • 2012 Yaa Asantewaa Award Senate for Integration - Award for civil society commitment Hamburg

literature

  • Music revolt, migration and politics with a focus on black music in Germany. In: Marvin Oppong (ed.): Migrants in German politics. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17057-2 .
  • Negritude - black global liberation movements of the 20th and 21st centuries. In: Adibeli Nduka-Agwu, Antje Lann Hornscheidt (ed.): Rassismus auf gut Deutsch - A critical reference work on racist language acts. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-86099-643-0 .
  • 2004 Brothers Keepers Go East. DVD 25 min, premiere at the Black International Cinema Festival Berlin, documentary film of the Brothers Keepers school tour through the East of the Republic, production, publisher: AFROTAK TV cyberNomads
  • Michael Küppers-Adebisi, Peggy Piesche (Eds.): May Ayim Award 2004. Book and multimedia CD. Orlanda Verlag cyberNomads, Berlin, ISBN 3-936937-21-4 .
  • AFROTAK TV cyberNomads with ADB Koeln (ed.): The Black Book, Cologne and Berlin, Black Present in Germany Middle Ages to the Present. IKO publishing house, ISBN 3-88939-745-X .
  • Federal Center for Political Education (Ed.): African Diaspora in Germany. Online dossier, editing: AFROTAK TV cyberNomads.

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personal data
SURNAME Kueppers-Adebisi, Adetoun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, media and gender activist, diversity coach, publicist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Lagos