Tanjuh, whose family says she is about 120 years old, is one of the last living witnesses to European colonial rule in Africa and her Bangwa people’s fierce resistance against German colonisation.

Despite peace deal signed in Washington with Rwanda, Congolese government will use available mechanisms to pursue justice for ...

THE annexation of Ethiopia has presented the Italian Government with a tremendous problem in colonial administration. No other area in Africa of equal size offers such variety of topography, climate, ...

These statutes remain in place, especially in Southern Africa. South Africa’s Witchcraft Suppression Act of 1957 is still enforced, despite calls for reform. In Zambia and Zimbabwe, people face arrest ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) confirms that several African presidents with lengthy tenures first came to power through freedom movements. Over time, many used harsh tactics to secure their authority ...

Germany has over the past years made strides in coming to terms with a dark era of its past, the colonial rule of large swaths of Africa Ciarn Fahey , Fanny Brodersen Friday 21 March 2025 06:46 GMT ...

Abdulrazak Gurnah is receiving worldwide attention after being awarded last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. His latest novel “Afterlives” is set in colonial East Africa occupied by Germany ...

Nov 13 (Openly) - Namibia's High Court will rule next May in a case that could see the southern African country overturn a colonial-era ban on same-sex relations. Friedel Dausab, who is gay, is ...

The Tanzanian Head of State was as the chief guest at Mozambique’s 50th independence anniversary celebrations in Maputo ...

BERLIN — 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 ...

Tanjuh, whose family says she is about 120 years old, is one of the last living witnesses to European colonial rule in Africa and her Bangwa people’s fierce resistance against German colonisation.