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‘No one talks about this’: Remembering Germany’s role in colonising Africa
the percentage of colonised parts of Africa went from 20 to 90 percent. The German Schutztruppe, or colonial guard, was particularly brutal in the colonies. In present-day Namibia, German troops ...
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A promise to an African grandmother: Shining a light on Germany's colonial past
It established control over huge swaths of Africa from 1884, through the colonies of German South West Africa, Cameroon, Togoland, and also German East Africa, in what today is Rwanda, Burundi and ...
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WW1: Why was the first German defeat in Africa?
Keen to compete with its European rivals, Germany acquired overseas colonies like Togo ... chests of tea was captured by a German cruiser off the east coast of Africa, just two days in to the ...
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A promise to an African grandmother: Shining a light on Germany’s colonial past
It established control over huge swaths of Africa from 1884, through the colonies of German South West Africa, Cameroon, Togoland, and also German East Africa, in what today is Rwanda, Burundi and ...
Promise to African grandmother Shining light on Germany's colonial past
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, ...