The Atlantic

German Colonial Administration

‘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 ...
Business Insider

African skulls pillaged during German colonial rule have been matched to living relatives after DNA tests

Ancient skulls pillaged by German invaders from East Africa have been traced to living relatives, thanks to DNA analysis, Berlin's Museums authority (SPK) said Tuesday. The discovery of descendants, ...
Time

How Activists Are Radically Interrogating Berlin’s Colonial Past—and Reshaping Its Future

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Seattle Times

A promise to an African grandmother: Shining a light on Germany’s colonial past

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 ...
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German Firm’s African Green-Energy Project Runs Into Ghosts From Past

NAIROBI, Kenya—A giant hydrogen-generation project in Africa is pitting German clean-energy executives against descendants of victims of Germany’s forgotten colonial genocide. A major German ...
The Conversation

African prisoners made sound recordings in German camps in WW1: this is what they had to say

During the first world war (1914-1918) thousands of African men enlisted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as prisoners in Germany. Their stories and songs were recorded and ...
CNN

Opinion: What it means to be born Black in Germany

EDITOR’S NOTE: Josephine Apraku is an author and scholar of African Studies, as well as a consultant on diversity. The views expressed in this commentary are their own. Read more opinion at CNN. It’s ...