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At times, colonial officers bought vast expanses ... Germany claimed four major areas: German East Africa, Kamerun, Togoland, and German Southwest Africa. Some researchers do not fully agree ...

When war broke out these colonial outposts would make ... carrying 30,000 chests of tea was captured by a German cruiser off the east coast of Africa, just two days in to the war.

Over the past 20 years, Germany has been gradually starting to talk more about the crimes it committed before World War II and the Holocaust, during the colonial ... as German East Africa, with ...

Chief Mangi Meli fought the German colonial power until he was arrested and executed ... As a German, I can’t describe things from an African perspective, so it was important for me to work with as ...

In this special edition of the Street Debate Fatou Muloshi is in Windhoek, Namibia to speak to school students, teachers and historical experts about Germany’s brutal colonial history in Namibia.

Most colonial economies in Africa were extractive in a straightforward sense. Raw materials like copper, gold, rubber and timber were extracted and shipped to Europe to support the economies of ...

Tanjuh, whose family says she is about 120 years old, is one of the last living witnesses to European colonial rule in Africa and her Bangwa people’s fierce resistance against German colonisation.

The plaque that marks 77 William Street, the building in the German capital where a meeting that forever shaped Africa’s ...