This Namibian coastal town feels uncannily like Germany, with half-timbered houses standing next to buildings from the imperial era. The street names in this corner of Africa are also German, with ...

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 ...

There are plenty of reminders of the colonial past in Swakopmund, a town on Namibia’s coast, if you know where to look. Mechanics work beneath battered Mercedes; doughy cooks prepare doughy strudel; a ...

Mnyaka Sururu Mboro leads a demonstration on Aug. 23, 2024, ahead of a ceremony renaming the street Petersallee into Maji-Maji-Allee, at the so called African Quarter, in Berlin, Germany. Associated ...

THE LONG SHADOW OF GERMAN COLONIALISM Amnesia, Denialism and Revisionism By Henning Melber £30 Hurst Publishing ISBN: 9781805260455 Germany’s colonial past has been, if not forgotten, cer- tainly a ...