Each One Teach One (EOTO) e.V.

Each One Teach One (EOTO) e.V. is a community-based education and empowerment organization and a place of learning and encounter for people of African heritage, based in Berlin, Germany. Its library and office space at Togostraße 76 in the Berlin district of Wedding serves as the hub for a wide range of projects on empowerment and anti-discrimination. Just three minutes away, at Kameruner Straße 16, are the premises of EOTO Youth and the advisory service. EOTO describes itself as a fusion of art and culture, politics, education and activism — not only because of its numerous community-based projects, but also because of the people who make the place lively: old meets young, experts meet autodidacts, grassroots activists meet international personalities. The name Each One Teach One was coined in the context of Black anti-racist resistance movements. It refers to the lack of access to formal education during times of enslavement and colonialism and to the necessity of passing on knowledge within Black families and communities. Founded in 2012, the association opened its doors as a neighborhood library in March 2014 and has since been a place of learning and encounter. EOTO presents literature by people of African heritage and conveys knowledge in intergenerational dialogue. Its reference library comprises works by authors from the African continent and the diaspora and documents Black history and present in and outside Germany through around 8,500 books and contemporary documents. As part of funding from the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, EOTO was able from 2017 to increase the number of permanent positions. EOTO's activities span a library and archive (including the Sankofa BRD/Sankofa DDR archive), sociocultural counseling for Black cultural workers, youth work, and public events. The organization hosts the Black Film Festival [BL]Action!, publishes monitoring reports such as the 2025 Monitoring Report on anti-Black racism in Berlin, and runs community spaces such as The Mothership, a weekly Afro-futurist reading and dreaming space. It also supports the structural development of ADEFRA, a Black queer-feminist cultural-political forum for Black women in Germany. Through READ THE ROOM and the hashtag #blacklibrary, EOTO positions its library as a place for research on Afro-diasporic literature, philosophy and culture.

Each One Teach One (EOTO) e.V. was founded in 2012 as a community-based education and empowerment organization for people of African heritage in Berlin. The name Each One Teach One was coined in the context of Black anti-racist resistance movements; it refers to the lack of access to formal education during times of enslavement and colonialism and to the necessity of passing on knowledge within Black families and communities. In March 2014, the association opened its doors as a neighborhood library (Kiez-Bibliothek) and has since been a place of learning and encounter. EOTO presents literature by people of African heritage and conveys knowledge in intergenerational dialogue. Its reference library (Präsenzbibliothek) comprises works by authors from the African continent and the diaspora and documents Black history and present in and outside Germany through around 8,500 books and contemporary documents. As part of funding from the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend), EOTO was able from 2017 to increase the number of permanent positions. The organization's library and office space at Togostraße 76 in Berlin-Wedding serves as the hub for a wide range of projects on empowerment and anti-discrimination, while the premises of EOTO Youth and the advisory service are located three minutes away at Kameruner Straße 16. Over time EOTO has expanded its activities to include the Sankofa BRD/Sankofa DDR archive, sociocultural counseling for Black cultural workers, youth work, and public events. It hosts the Black Film Festival [BL]Action!, publishes monitoring reports such as the 2025 Monitoring Report on anti-Black racism in Berlin, and runs community spaces such as The Mothership, a weekly Afro-futurist reading and dreaming space launched on April 1st, 2025. It also supports the structural development of ADEFRA, a Black queer-feminist cultural-political forum for Black women in Germany, and runs READ THE ROOM in the EOTO Library under the hashtag #blacklibrary.

• 2026

  2nd edition of [BL]Action! The Black Film Festival announced.

• 2025

  The Mothership, a weekly Afro-futurist reading and dreaming space, launched.

• 2025

  Monitoring Report 2025 on anti-Black racism in Berlin published.

• 2017

  With funding from the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, EOTO was able to increase the number of permanent positions.

• 2014

  EOTO opened its doors as a neighborhood library (Kiez-Bibliothek).

• 2012

  Each One Teach One (EOTO) e.V. founded.

A community-based education, empowerment and archive organization for people of African heritage, fusing art and culture, politics, education and activism.

• EOTO Library (Präsenzbibliothek)

  A reference library with around 8,500 books and contemporary documents by authors from the African continent and the diaspora, documenting Black history and present in and outside Germany.

• Sankofa BRD/Sankofa DDR Archive

  An archive within the EOTO Library documenting Black history in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic.

• Sociocultural counseling for Black cultural workers

  Free sociocultural counseling offered by the library team for projects, initiatives, students, cultural workers and journalists, on Tuesdays and Fridays from 14:00 to 18:00 during library opening hours.

• The Mothership

  A weekly Afro-futurist reading and dreaming space at EOTO e.V., every Tuesday from 5:30–7:00 PM, launched April 1st, 2025.

• READ THE ROOM / #blacklibrary

  A format in the EOTO Library for research on Afro-diasporic literature, philosophy and culture.

1. 1EOTO official website homepageeoto-archiv.de
2. 2EOTO – Über unseoto-archiv.de
3. 3Wikidata Q131845629wikidata.org