- Figure 16. “Malian medical students. Young Malian medical students are currently enrolled at the medical school in Quedlinburg, where they are learning as much as they can about medicine so that, after they graduate, they can return home to contribute to the improvement of public health. ‘Here are the true friends of our people,’ said the leader of the twenty-person delegation from the young African nation. In the last year the workers of our republic have already sent important medications to Mali. Above: you have to know how to correctly give a shot.” (caption text from Bundesarchiv) Zentralbild Schmidt, December 5, 1961 (Bundesarchiv). This image is stylized, with the white East German instructor clearly positioned as having authority over the Black Malian students.
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