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It's often said that no one in Berlin is from Berlin. But among the city's shifting ethnic milieus, a well-established African community is building a strong Berlin identity, as DW's Stuart Braun discovers.

"I love Neukölln," says Saidu Bah, who runs the African Union bookstore and meeting place on the main drag of Berlin's polyglot southwest district. Saidu came to Germany from Sierra Leone in 1993 after fleeing civil war and opened African Union with his German wife almost five years ago.

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