Africa-Europe roundtable on colonization focuses on remembrance, reimagining
[World Council of Churches] An Africa-Europe Ecumenical Roundtable on the legacies of colonization and the future of ecumenical relations took place in Berlin, Germany, Oct. 24-25.
The gathering drew Christian leaders from Belgium, Botswana, Canada, Cameroon, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Haiti, Kenya, Nigeria, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Togo, the United Kingdom, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The meeting was supported by the German Federal Foreign Office.
Over two days, participants immersed themselves in exercises of remembrance – recalling how their lives got connected through painful, exploitative circumstances visited by the racist colonial and imperial projects of Europe in which most missionaries were complicit.
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