Project: Afrozensus

Project duration: June 2019 - December 2021

The Afrozensus is the first comprehensive study on the life experiences of Black, African and Afro-diasporic people in Germany. Among other things, it consisted of an online survey in which around 6,000 Black, African and Afro-diasporic people aged 16 and over took part between July and September 2020. The study covers the following topics: Engagement, experiences of discrimination in 14 areas of life, dealing with discrimination, patterns of anti-Black racism as well as resilience and empowerment. The topics of health and education were explored in greater depth in separate chapters with results from qualitative interviews and focus groups. Throughout the research process, the project team paid particular attention to the human rights-based principles of data collection such as self-identification, transparency, protection of privacy, voluntary participation and, above all, the involvement of representatives of the study’s target groups (e.g. community consultations and town halls).

The project was concluded with a comprehensively illustrated, over 300-page report on the realities of life for black, African and Afro-diasporic people in Germany. It is available for download on the Afrozensus homepage in German (and in English soon). Using the Afrozensus Data Explorer, it is also possible to take a look at aggregated data, some of which is not published in the report.

The Afrozensus is a flagship project for community-based research in German-speaking countries and is listed by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights as a promising practice for the collection of equality data.

The Afrozensus was realised by Each One Teach One e.V. in cooperation with Citizens For Europe (CFE) and funded by the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency. The co-authors of the Afrozensus, who were formerly employed by CFE, are now partners at zedela. We contribute our experience and expertise from the Afrozensus project and regularly give presentations on the results and lessons learnt from the survey on request. The English translation of the Afrozensus website was realised by us with funding from the Bosch Stiftung and will go online in a few weeks.

If you have any questions about the Afrozensus, please contact afrozensus [at] eoto-archiv [dot] de directly.