Germany in 1884-1885 to set out common terms and manage the colonisation process. No African nations were invited or represented. In November 1884, German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck took up the ...

The infamous Berlin Conference that took place in 1884–1885 in Berlin, Germany set the stage for the colonization of Africa by the European powers. Each colonial power would then bring and ...

February 26th marked the 140th anniversary of one of the most consequential events in the history of Western imperialism: the ...

Germany has over the past years made strides in coming to terms with a dark era of its past, the colonial rule of large ...

The Berlin Conference, November 1884 to February 1885, Germany [Getty images ... who gathered to discuss the impacts of colonisation on Africa today. “I decided to come up with a format that ...

This month marks 140 years since Western powers sidelined Africans and carved up ‘ownership’ of the continent.

From 1885 to 1919, the region was part of ... Maji-Allee to remember the Maji Maji Rebellion against colonial rule in German East Africa. The other was named after Anna Mungunda, who fought ...

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 chieftain, ...