Dar es Salaam. For Tanzanians, running is more than just a form of exercise – it’s a part of the nation’s history.Long before Mr Mohammed Iqbal coined the name ‘Tanzania’, tribal warriors practised ...

Mnyaka Sururu Mboro is still driven by the promise he gave his grandmother when he left Tanzania for Germany almost 50 years ...

Germany has over the past years made strides in coming to terms with a dark era of its past, the colonial rule of large ...

Berlin, a city that has witnessed centuries of history, now grappling with the painful legacies of its colonial past ...

Mnyaka Sururu Mboro is still driven by the promise he gave his grandmother when he left Tanzania for Germany almost 50 years ago. He told her he would recover the head of local chieftan Mangi Meli, ...

Author Abdulrazak Gurnah was a surprise winner of the Nobel prize for his multigenerational saga of displacement and loss during the colonization of East Africa called Afterlives. He's back with a new ...

This week brings a number of promising new reads — but none more eagerly awaited than Sunrise on the Reaping. We offer 5 books to consider... This week brings a number of promising new reads — but ...

Lissu is expected to be more confrontational towards the ruling CCM party. Tanzania's president says she is "confident" the country will "overcome" the highly infectious Marburg. Worthing's Russ ...

Colonialism on the continent was not limited ... The main African recipients of e-waste are Nigeria, Ghana, and Tanzania, with Kenya, Senegal and Egypt featuring as countries of concern.

Most colonial economies in Africa were extractive in a straightforward sense. Raw materials like copper, gold, rubber and timber were extracted and shipped to Europe to support the economies of ...

The court’s decision to remove the names of controversial colonial figures from public places is more than a simple renaming exercise. It is a symbolic yet significant step in dismantling the ...

In May 1879, at the behest of Leopold II, the steamship Chinsura sailed from Mumbai to Zanzibar, carrying four tamed Asian elephants bound for Tanzania ... a commonplace colonial type, one ...