Let me say that if all military histories were as thrilling and well-written as Robert Gaudi’s “African Kaiser” (Caliber, $29, 436 pages), I might give up reading fiction and literary ...

A hundred years ago on this day, on August 8th, 1914, the British HMS Asteria and Pegasus protected cruisers bombed Dar-es-Salaam, then the capital of German East Africa, bringing the European so ...

In German East Africa, with its large native population of some seven or eight millions, the same policy of ruthless extermination could not be pursued; yet it is officially admitted that in one ...

The history of operations in East Africa during 1914 and 1915 affords little but a meagre record of sporadic raids, isolated bush fights, and attacks on blockhouses, the result on the whole being ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, center-left, and Kenya's President William Ruto, center, stand for national anthems and to observe the honour guard, during a visit to State House in Nairobi, Kenya ...

At the outbreak of war in 1914, Germany had four colonies: Togo, Kamerun (Cameroon), German Southwest Africa and German East Africa. Advertisement ...

“African Kaiser,” however, doesn’t just focus on these ragtag troops and their general. Gaudi tells us about Room 40 — center for British cryptography — and the history of zeppelins.

(eTN) - Little did Africa know, neither of, nor about, the outcome of the notorious Berlin Conference, when the greats of the world, or those who thought of themselves as greats at the time, grabbed a ...

It controlled huge swaths of Africa from 1884 to 1900, through the colonies of German South West Africa, Cameroon, Togoland, and also German East Africa, in what today is Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania.

The German offensive in Africa has been planned long beforehand and is part of the return of Germany to an aggressive foreign policy. In mid-May last year, the cabinet approved the “government ...

Pulitzer-winner's book depicts nuances of German colonization in East Africa : NPR's Book of the Day In Abdulrazak Gurnah's Afterlives, the characters centered in the novel offer different ...