Tropical medicine boomed as European powers claimed territories in Africa. Germany sent the famed Robert Koch and many others to... more

Respected German anthropologists made a career from dividing people by race, a new branch of science that conveniently put Europeans... more

Why does Namibia have a bizarre panhandle? Why do some Ghanaians talk of being from "Western Togoland"? Much of this... more

After the decisive Battle of Waterberg between German and Herero fighters, colonial officers in the colony of South West Africa,... more

Germany's control over Togoland drastically altered traditional power structures, favoring compliant chiefs and running roughshod over cultural norms. We explore... more

In East Africa and the Great Lakes region, German colonial conquest spurred courageous resistance from many local East African groups... more

In the context of colonial-era injustice, the renaming of landmarks almost seems like a footnote. But in this podcast we... more

Summer 1896: A Cameroonian man appeared in Treptower Park, Berlin as part of a human exhibition to increase enthusiasm for... more

Running a colonial empire required a reliable merchant fleet. Hamburg-based businessman Adolph Woermann and his shipping line soon exerted considerable... more

By 1885, Adolf Lüderitz had acquired vast territories in today's Namibia. But his contracts with local people were so dodgy... more