This book is emphatically not about Islam as understood or practiced by Muslims in German East Africa (GEA); it is about the evolution of German understandings of Islam, the extent to which Germans ...

The East Africa Campaign was a very different kind of war, but one that deserves historical recognition. Before and during the First World War, the Germans had plans to link up the four German ...

"As its last option, the Schutztruppe had to use the cooperation of hunger," the governor of German East Africa, Gustav Adolf von Götzen wrote. "Burning down villages, fields and food supplies ...

East Germans fleeing communism were once housed there. - 'Grief, depression, trauma' - Many communities have long complained ...

IN 1907 the late Prof. E. Fraas, of Stuttgart, discovered at Tendaguru in Tanganyika Territory (then German East Africa) an extensive deposit of bones of gigantic Dinosaurs comparable with the ...

Tanzania, then known as Tanganyika, was a part of German East Africa, which also consisted of modern-day Rwanda, Burundi and parts of Mozambique. President Steinmeier said he hoped Tanzania and ...