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 ...

Arbitrary boundaries were drawn on maps to separate European colonies ... the Zambezi River as a trade route to connect to German East Africa (Reuters/Staff ) After the 1884 Berlin Conference ...

In 1906, a renowned German scientist travelled to East Africa with his wife and assistants to try and find a “cure” for the disease. He set up a sleeping sick “concentration camp” for East ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Pulitzer-winner's book depicts nuances of German colonization in East Africa : NPR's Book of the Day In Abdulrazak Gurnah's Afterlives, the characters centered in the novel offer different ...

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 ...