Katharina von Hammerstein, a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, delivered a talk titled the “Voices of Genocide: From German Colonialism in Africa to the ...

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 Simon ...

Lars Kraume took his period drama, about the massacre of the Herero and Nama tribes by German colonial powers, on tour in Namibia before its European release. "If this film can be a tool for ...

GERMANY'S colonial aspirations are confined largely to Africa: that is the classic field for colonial exploitation and there lie the most important of the former German colonies. The problems created ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier apologized Wednesday for colonial-era atrocities committed by German forces in Tanzania during a visit to the East African country. “As German President, I ...

Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Germany expanded its boundaries to Africa though colonization. Although short-lived, lasting only until World War I, colonization led to new ideas in German ...

BERLIN (AP) — 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 ...

African leaders convened in Algiers on Sunday for the Conference on the Crimes of Colonialism in Africa. The conference was another step in the African Union’s plan of action to advance justice and ...

Explore how European private institutions continue to control Africa's cultural heritage, examining the complexities of ...

Colonialism has been a central part of history around the world, differing only in form over time and space. After all, whenever people have moved from one place to another, they have colonised spaces ...