A promise to an African grandmother: Shining a light on Germany’s colonial past
Germany has over the past years made strides in coming to terms with a dark era of its past, the colonial rule of large ...
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‘No one talks about this’: Remembering Germany’s role in colonising Africa
“He was stationed in German East Africa and he was building these train tracks there. I was like, wait a minute. Of course, this happened, but nobody ever talked about it. Growing up in Germany ...
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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 ...