Serge Palasie (M.A. African Studies) is a specialist promoter for flight, migration and development at "Eine Welt Netz NRW". He focuses on the transatlantic history of redistribution and its relevance for the present. This history, shaped by the transatlantic enslavement trade and colonialism, must be increasingly taken into account in a Germany that, in its own interest, should abandon the idea of an ethnically homogeneous nation, when dealing with issues such as racism, unfair global trade relations, climate injustice or development policy.