A call to young and diverse people to enter institutions to change politics and how we live together
Aminata Touré spent the first years of her life in a refugee shelter; today she is vice president of a German state parliament. The fact that this sentence reads like a heroine’s tale shows that we don’t yet live in an open and equal society. It’s high time to change that.
Aminata Touré was born in 1992, shortly after her parents had fled Mali. That same year, buildings in which “people like her” lived burned down in Germany. Her book is about growing up as a black woman in a society that still has trouble recognizing its own racism, but also about her path to politics and her successes and failures – not so she can say that it was difficult or easy, but to point out what needs to change in this country. Politics can be more than holding on to power and managing the status quo.
