Multicultural Germany How We Experience Racism
Part 8: Adetoun Küppers-Adebisi
"I come from Lagos, Nigeria, and I came to the German city of Solingen with my parents as a child. Sometimes someone on the street would say, 'You're a poor child' and give me five marks. I later studied engineering in Mannheim and Cologne, then worked as an industrial engineer in Berlin. My colleagues there quickly made clear what they thought of me -- nothing. When we sat down in the company cafeteria together, suddenly they were experts on Africa, acting as if they knew everything about the continent, better than I did. But eventually that grew too boring for them. Data started disappearing from my computer. At my presentations, the projector would be missing. I developed strategies: I logged out every evening before going home, stored my data on a USB stick and made copies of presentations. I didn't let it show any more than they did. Then my contract expired."
- Part 1: How We Experience Racism
- Part 2: Lewis Otoo
- Part 3: Natalia Drechsler
- Part 4: Lincoln Assinouko
- Part 5: Tsepo Bollwinkel Keele
- Part 6: Nguyen Thi Hien Thuy
- Part 7: Aziza Janah
- Part 8: Adetoun Küppers-Adebisi
- Part 9: Apostolos Tsalastras
- Part 10: Artiom Karpovich
- Part 11: Olgun Eksi
- Part 12: Ali Güngörmüs
- Part 13: Herrmann Höllenreiner
- Part 14: Omid Nouripour
- Part 15: Sandrine Micossé-Aikins
- Part 16: Deniz Berkpinar