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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 from a ...
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‘No one talks about this’: Remembering Germany’s role in colonising Africa
Indeed, within five years of the conference, the percentage of colonised parts of Africa went from 20 to 90 percent. The German Schutztruppe, or colonial guard, was particularly brutal in the ...
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How German Youth Experience Africa
During the Spring holidays in Hamburg, Germany two weeks in March 2025, my student Paul went with his father to Uganda .
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Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is sworn in as Namibia's first female leader
Nandi-Ndaitwah is just the fifth president of Namibia, a sparsely populated nation in southwestern Africa which was a German colony until the end of World War I and then won independence from South ...
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East Africa: Berlin Conference's Impact On EAC Development 140 Years After Divide of Africa
As the world marks 140 years since the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, it is crucial to reflect on the enduring legacy of this event, particularly in East Africa. The conference, which aimed to divide ...
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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 ...