Allan Border My Story

A space created for African descendants to share their experiences and lives outside of Africa. Breaking down walls and stereotypes about what it truly means to be African.

A house, the people, the time.

Standing in the heart of Berlin, the Palast der Republik, was the golden centerpiece of the East German regime. In 2002 in was finally decided that the building should be demolished. In a rare display of bureaucratic inspiration, the famous brown mirrored windows which had covered the building were quietly given away to the public. See through the eyes of four very different people who wanted a window, an intimate journey through this very recent period of German history. Why they wanted the windows and what they have done with them, reveal touchingly different perspectives on a reunified Germany 20 years after the fall of the wall.

Lola and Maria are The Resistance against the suffering caused by the current political and economic crisis in Spain.

For various reasons, a group of Nahua migrants from the Huasteca area of Hidalgo state go to the city of Guadalajara, where they now live. This has a great social, cultural and economic impact on Santa Cruz, their community of origin. Several stories are found within this Nahua migration: a teenager who finishes junior high school and drops out to go work in Guadalajara; an experienced woman migrant who has done well in business and now plans to emigrate to the United States; and a young mother who leaves her children with her mother to go work in the city where, finally, she is murdered.