When the Allies declared war on Germany, both sides’ colonies had been automatically included: South Africa was part of the British Commonwealth and Germany had colonies in GSWA and German East ...

when Tanganyika was part of German East Africa. Before it died away, at least 20 Tanganyikans were dead, whole blocks of the Arab and Indian quarters lay in ruins, and President Julius Nyerere’s ...

where Allied forces fought in the then-German colonies of German South West Africa (now Namibia) and German East Africa (now Tanzania). The men made the same ultimate sacrifice as around 10 ...

Beyond these bare facts, little has been known for more than a century about Jenniker and Madhliwa – or any of the other 1,700 South Africans of colour who died in World War I in Africa. But now ...

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Despite the innumerable white versus white and black/brown versus white conflicts of the nineteenth and previous centuries, scores of Afrikaners would serve alongside white English-speaking South ...

Germany's former president Horst Koehler, who also once headed the International Monetary Fund and was a strong backer of Africa, died Saturday aged 81 after a brief illness.

In an interview with FE at the Kerala Literature Festival, Erpenbeck talks about her previous works, the art and free speech ...

The Associated Press  African “iroko” hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African ...

A British liner carrying 30,000 chests of tea was captured by a German cruiser off the east coast of Africa, just two days in to the war. So it was imperative to Britain that Germany’s long ...