Black German Education Media Art & Culture Archive - Black Media Watch since 2001

AWARDS & HONORS
* 2009 RESPECT Media Award/ Senate of Berlin
* 2008 Best Media Projekt/ Foundation Democracy & Tolerance of the German Government BERLIN
* 2006 Named among the 50 Most Important African Diaspora Germany Projects/ African Heritage Magazin HAMBURG
* 2005 Named as Worthy Project Germany / Human Rights Report Europe
* 2005 Best German Media Project/ African Youth Foundation BONN
* 2005 Honorable Mentioning/ Peace Award BREMEN
* 2004 May Ayim Award - The 1. Panafrican Literature Award Erster internationaler Schwarzer Deutscher Literature Award Germany -
Our Project May Ayim Award was Elected as Project for the Memory of the Slave Trade by UNESCO Chapter Germany BONN
* 2002 Finalist Social Business Project/ Bertelsmann Foundation BERLIN

AFROTAK TV cyberNomads
Black German Education Media Art & Culture Archive - Black Media Watch since 2001

OUR HISTORY
In 2001 AFROTAK TV cyberNomads promoted the digital architecture for an educational online databank to the Office for Civic Education of the German Government (BPB). We called it the Mothership Databank in reference to Sun Ra..s Mothership Connection.
The portal premiered in 2002. We realized three major Media Conferences with local, national and international Black and African media. We collected speakers from academia, business, media and art and network them in Berlin. We develop an alliance of Europe-based African Publishers to market and promote the image of the African continent and black Europe.

The Media Network establishes over 4000 registered on- and offline contacts that lobby with the mainstream of Germany and Europe. The Black German Yello Pages - Afro European Diaspora Directory People of Colour Afrika Deutschland Europe - constituted the first structural overview on the African scene in Germany as well as its links within Germany & Europe.

We pitch our concepts to institutional cooperation partners and sponsors and stage our events at their locations (Goethe Institute Berlin, Heinrich Boell Foundation, and House of the Cultures of the World). We organized press conferences with Thomas Krueger - the head of the Office for Civic Education of the German Government to dispel media perceptions about Africa through effective communication strategies interfacing with the media.

We developed the MAY AYIM AWARD - a Pan-African International Black German Literature Award under umbrella ship of the German section of UNESCO and Published the Book May Ayim Award with Orlanda Publishing House. Our publication The "Black Book" revisits the footnotes and documents German history to promote access and understanding of Africa..s history and Africa..s history in Germany and Europe.

We offer our expertise to universities, companies and NGO..s teaching Change Management in workshops on Content Management as well as on Migration, Integration, cyberspace and the workforce. We access an offline-audience traditionally excluded from the German cultural and educational mainstream network and media-channels accumulating over 11 million visitors since 2001 on our different plattforms. We do target group consulting for public TV (MDR, ZDF, N24), we are present on PublicRadio (Deutschlandfunk, Radio Multikulti, Deutsche Welle) and in print (Zitty, The African Courier, African Heritage, LoNam).

On invitation of the South African Embassy AFROTAK TV cyberNomads in September 07 represented Germany at the African Union - Diaspora in Europe Regional Consultative Conference in Paris. Adetoun Kueppers-Adebisi is Board Member of the African Diaspora Committee Germany on accord of the African Union since 08.

In 2009/ 2010 AFROTAK TV cyberNomads coordinated the workshops for MBR for the inclusion of Media & Culture NGO´s input into the Berlin State legislation proposals against racism and ethnic discrimination.

In 2009 and 2010 AFROTAK TV cyberNomads also participated in the coordination of Black History Month Berlin organizing and moderating Panels on
Black German Cultural Identity, The Future Perspectives of Schwarz in Deutschland, Structural Racism in Academia and Sport or on Black Academia in a White context.

In 2010 we published “Negritude – Schwarze Globale Befreiungsbewegungen des 20. Und 21. Jhdts mit Fokus Deutschland“ in der Anthologie RASSISMUS AUF GUT DEUTSCH

AFROTAK TV cyberNomads @ www.afrotak.com continues the Black Media Perspective in a White German context. Our video channel AFROTAK TV showcases the culture and Media around the Black Atlantic with a specific focus on Germany.

AFROTAK TV cyberNomads are constantly looking for new partners and co - operations as well as for supporters and sponsors for innovative Black Community Projects. AFROTAK TV cyberNomads assist you in marketing your conscious events and projects from within the Black Community into the community as well as into the Mainstream.