A French map of Africa, c. 1911 (PD ... German General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck — commander of forces in the German East Africa campaign — was a major thorn in Britain’s side; he’s ...

The East Africa campaign was the opposite of the European war of trenches: it was about mobility, short raids and long treks on foot. The German Schutztruppe, white German commanders and black ...

“Afterlives,” the new novel from the Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, is set in colonial-era German East Africa ... at least on a map: British East Africa, Deutch-Ostafrika, África Oriental ...

South West Africa (today Namibia), Cameroon and Togo were euphemistically proclaimed to be possessions under “German protection” in 1884. East Africa (today’s Tanzania and parts of Rwanda ...

Political leaders from Germany and East Africa are set to attend the second German-African Economic Summit in Nairobi this week. But how friendly or cordial are Berlin's ties with Kenya ...

The Imperial government first invited the enrollment of an overseas contingent: and it was only when this had been dispatched to Europe that attention was concentrated on German East Africa.

German East Africa, established in the 1880s and broken up after the end of World War I in 1918, included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, mainland Tanzania and part of Mozambique.

The East Africa campaign was the opposite of the European war of trenches: it was about mobility, short raids and long treks on foot. The German Schutztruppe, white German commanders and black ...