Malonda Dismantles German Racism and Its Roots in New Single - Deutschungshoheit -

MALONDA - “Deutschungshoheit” (feat. Melane & Roger Rekless)

On December 13, 2022, MALONDA released the song “Deutschungshoheit”, in which she angrily and precisely dismantles German racism and its roots. Small verbal aggressions and ignorance are attacked just as much as the police and the notoriously good conscience of white Germans. Together with her featured guests Roger Rekless and Melane, MALONDA has recorded an anthem for Black resistance.

Germany has discovered racism. Preferably the one in other countries or from past days, which has been carefully managed and cataloged. Not everyone has the privilege of this rediscovery. The opening lines of MALONDA's new single quote the wisdom of her mother: …“when I was young my mama said: they will always treat you like dirt…”
MALONDA didn't want to hear this for a long time, didn't want to admit to herself and society how much German racism, with its roots in imperial colonialism and violent rule, has also shattered her self-image. In Germany, it is almost impossible for non-white people to define their own identity; there is always an ignorant German person standing by who thinks they know better. Because they have the Deutschungshoheit.

In her new single, MALONDA takes up the fight under the banner of a Molotov banana: against racism and clichés, but also against the notoriously good conscience of well-meaning white Germans who make racism someone else's problem and refuse to believe that there are people in this country who have to fear for their lives.
MALONDA not only dismantles this phenomenon; together with her featured guests Roger Rekless and Melane, she conjures up resistance as a struggle both internally and on the streets. The epic music video roots this struggle in Berlin locations of Black resistance. In this city, inspired by Audre Lorde, a process of Black German self-determination began, which MALONDA continues.
The conflict with the police shown in the video during the shoot due to the public transport of bananas in a wheelbarrow while Black demonstrates that it is not only on the day of the single release (December 13) that the role of the police in German racism, which shapes the lives of Black and Afro-diasporic people in this country, needs to be discussed.

Due to the anger, sarcasm, and stylistic confidence, “Deutschungshoheit” is not a dry theory pop. Thoughts and feelings are always one for MALONDA.
The song is a political autobiography, with passages in Lingala, the language of her mother. In the video, she wears a Maasai cloth as a reminder of her father.
On her album “Mein Herz ist ein dunkler Kontinent”, which will be released in early 2023, the song serves as the musical finale that explains all the other songs, especially the seemingly apolitical ones about romantic depression and sad love. The deepest toxic relationship in MALONDA's life is with Germany: “I want to see the Germans cry, just as I had to cry as a German.” The right people will raise their fists to this song, and the right people will be afraid of it. That it is, alongside everything else, an undeniably powerful jam, no one can deny.

Achans statement on the song:
"The song and video are a confrontation with the country where I was born and raised, that does not want me and pretends I do not exist. The country that should be a home to me, but is not.
In my head, I hear the ignorant German person who knows better, who says it’s not that bad, that it’s just isolated cases and that the police are on my side, that I divide when I talk about race. This person has the Deutschungshoheit.
I want to see these Germans cry, just as I have to cry as a Black German.
The song and video stand at the end of a long journey, a long search for identity and community. They are meant to represent a piece of Black and Afro-diasporic reality in this country, but not for the white gaze, rather for ourselves.
Working on the song has given me a lot of empowerment and community. My brother Benedict-François came to the studio and taught me the attitude and drummed, Melane sang vocals in Lingala, and Roger Rekless provided a feature.
These are four Congolese people on one track. I am showing myself for the first time as a German with Congolese and Sudanese roots. Lingala is my mother’s language, the Maasai cloth a reminder of my father.
The video by Rebecca Pokua Korang and Yatri N. Niehaus also shows what can happen to Black people here in Germany in public spaces when we just have fun and celebrate our Black, queer existences.
The conflict shown due to the public transport of bananas in a wheelbarrow "while Black" is not staged and proves that it is not only today that we need to talk about the role of the police in German racism, which shapes our lives in this country.
The video was shot in Berlin, at locations of Black resistance. Here, Joseph Bilé worked, here a process of Black German self-determination inspired by Audre Lorde began. I hope that the song is a part of this story."

Here is the link to the song;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp-Q2FRVwcY