German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, center-left, and Kenya's President William Ruto, center, stand for national anthems and to observe the honour guard, during a visit to State House in Nairobi, Kenya ...

The history of operations in East Africa during 1914 and 1915 affords little but a meagre record of sporadic raids, isolated bush fights, and attacks on blockhouses, the result on the whole being ...

In Abdulrazak Gurnah's Afterlives, the characters centered in the novel offer different perspectives of ordinary people under German colonization in East Africa. In an interview with NPR's Scott ...

But until he visited Africa himself in the early 1990s, Kraume had never heard of the darkest chapters in German history: the massacre, between 1904 and 1908, of tens of thousands of Herero and ...

Fiction Love and Empire “Afterlives,” the new novel from the Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, is set in colonial-era German East Africa.

Skulls housed in a German hospital's collection for a century were stolen from Africa during the colonial period. They have now been genetically matched with living relatives.

African prisoners in German camps were studied by ethnographers, who recorded their voices. What they had to say is poignant and unexpected.

The reconciliation, especially after WWII, paved the way for strong friendship and partnership. This 60th Franco-German Friendship day will be honoured with a ministerial council.