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#abolition

Decolonization does not happen by changing a few street names," Afro-German political scientist, human rights activist Joshua Kwesi Aikins told DW after it was announced that a central city street whose name many regard as racist would honor Anton Wilhelm Amo, an Afro-German Enlightenment philosopher who in 1734 became the first African-born scholar to receive a doctorate from a European university. "Moor, in its Greek roots, means dark or black but also 'stupid or primitive,' Aikins explained, the latter having been historically adopted in German usage.