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 ...

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IT is somewhat of a reflection on the late Mr. Gladstone’s foreign policy that the two chief campaigns in the subcontinent of Africa have taken place owing to the existence of two German colonies, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information During the past 50 years Journal of African Law has established itself as the leading journal in its field. Its wide coverage ...

‘THE history of our Colonies in the world war has shown that the German Colonial Empire was no proper “empire” at all, but just a number of possessions without geographical and political connection or ...

World War I in Africa was a very different experience compared to the trenches of Europe. This video explores the campaigns fought across vast territories in German East Africa, West Africa, and ...

In Tanga, port of Tanganyika (before the War, German East Africa), Britons seethed with righteous indignation last week, wrote letters to the papers, sent cables to the Foreign Office, demanded the ...

“Afterlives,” the new novel from the Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, is set in colonial-era German East Africa. Credit...Daniel Zender Supported by By Imbolo Mbue When you purchase an independently ...

German imperialism is not only playing a leading role in NATO’s escalation of the war against Russia in Ukraine, Africa, too, is increasingly coming into its focus. The coalition government is ...

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. When you purchase ...

The WW1 battle for control over Central Africa and access to the region’s vast natural resources pitted Germany’s Kaiserliche Marine against Britain’s Royal Navy in one of the war’s most unusual ...