Robbie Aitken

Professor Robbie Aitken is a historian of Black Europe and Empire at Sheffield Hallam University. He has written widely on the development of a Black community in Germany from the 1880s up to 1945. His publications include Black Germany, the Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884-1960, (with Eve Rosenhaft). Currently he is working on the Black experience of Nazi Germany as well as post-war compensation claims made by Black victims of the Holocaust. He has been involved in several public exhibition and memorial projects in Berlin as well as developing and staging his own travelling exhibition Black Germany, which has been shown in the UK, Germany, and Cameroon.