Germany has over the past years made strides in coming to terms with a dark era of its past, the colonial rule of large ...

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 ...

When war broke out these colonial outposts would make ... carrying 30,000 chests of tea was captured by a German cruiser off the east coast of Africa, just two days in to the war.

Mnyaka Sururu Mboro is still driven by the promise he gave his grandmother when he left Tanzania for Germany almost 50 years ...

The colonial categorisation of African peoples into distinct groups such as Bantu, Nilotes, Khoi and other artificial ...

as opposed to other German possessions in Africa. Settlers began arriving in desert coastal towns like Lüderitz and Swakopmund and trekked inland. Colonial authorities deemed the land suitable ...

In Africa, there was a general assumption on the part of colonial powers that Africans ... Irish Nationalists and German Jews. Drury Lane was the site of a club exclusively for black soldiers.

A century ago, Germany, France and Britain claimed Cameroon at different times. The scars are seen in conflicts today.

When the southwest African nation was under German colonial rule, nearly 100,000 indigenous people were killed or died during what is widely recognised as one of the 20th century's first genocides.