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IT is somewhat of a reflection on the late Mr. Gladstone’s foreign policy that the two chief campaigns in the subcontinent of Africa have taken place owing to the existence of two German colonies, ...

‘THE history of our Colonies in the world war has shown that the German Colonial Empire was no proper “empire” at all, but just a number of possessions without geographical and political connection or ...

BERLIN — Mnyaka Sururu Mboro is still driven by the promise he gave his grandmother when he left Tanzania for Germany almost 50 years ago: to bring back for a proper burial the head of a local ...

Zamani: A Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (DECEMBER 2024), pp. 142-166 (26 pages) The history of colonial missionaries in Tanzania is marked by a complex interplay between ...

For years, the head of a queen sat in storage in a building in Berlin. Her face is smooth, but her head is intricately engraved and topped with a crown befitting a lyoba—a matriarch figure from the ...

Lars Kraume took his period drama, about the massacre of the Herero and Nama tribes by German colonial powers, on tour in Namibia before its European release. "If this film can be a tool for ...

The German government formally recognized colonial-era atrocities against the Herero and Nama people in modern-day Namibia for the first time, referring to the early 20th century massacres as ...

The FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar marks the first time the tournament is being hosted in the Middle East. Soccer was first introduced to the Middle East and Africa by European colonizers. During the ...