A promise to an African grandmother: Shining a light on Germany’s colonial past
Germany has over the past years made strides in coming to terms with a dark era of its past, the colonial rule of large ...
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‘No one talks about this’: Remembering Germany’s role in colonising Africa
“He was stationed in German East Africa and he was building these train tracks there. I was like, wait a minute. Of course, this happened, but nobody ever talked about it. Growing up in Germany ...
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Forgotten no more: The Black South Africans who died in WWI Africa
Beyond these bare facts, little has been known for more than a century about Jenniker and Madhliwa – or any of the other 1,700 South Africans of colour who died in World War I in Africa. But now ...
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Colonising Africa: What happened at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885?
No African nations were invited or represented. In November 1884, German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck took up the task of calling for and hosting the conference in Berlin at the Reich Chancellery ...
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In conversation: Hannelore Kaufmann's life story part 1 Africa
This is the first part of Hannelores life story. Her family belongs to the German Colonists in East Africa. Thats where she grew up, on a coffee plantation, until she got malaria and had to go ...
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A promise to an African grandmother: Shining a light on Germany's colonial past
From 1885 to 1919, the region was part of German East Africa, a huge colony almost three times the size of present-day Germany. Mboro grew up with stories about the king whom the Germans hanged ...
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A promise to an African grandmother: Shining a light on Germany’s colonial past
From 1885 to 1919, the region was part of German East Africa, a huge colony almost three times the size of present-day Germany. Mboro grew up with stories about the king whom the Germans hanged ...