Fasia, Defiant Women and a Troubadoura
“I sing to raise people’s spirits”, says Fasia Jansen (1929 – 1997). With her powerful blues voice, she is known in the Ruhr area as the “voice of the Easter Marches” for nuclear disarmament. Fasia sings for equal rights and peace. She fights against racism, fascism, and oppression, always supporting women in struggle. Her father was Momulu Massaquoi, a West African king and diplomat, but she grew up with her mother Elli Bracklow among dock workers in Hamburg-Rothenburgsort. The Nazis subjected her to medical experiments and compelled her to work in a soup kitchen at the Neuengamme concentration camp. She barely survived the war, but today she is an icon for Black Germans.
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