Over the past 20 years, Germany cautiously started to address the crimes their compatriots committed during colonial times
Between 200,000 and 300,000 members of the Indigenous population were brutally murdered during the so-called Maji Maji Rebellion of 1905 to 1907.
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Tuesday called for Germany to face up to its “dark” colonial past in Tanzania and said his country was open to returning artefacts looted during the era, our sister publication, The Citizen reports.
German East Africa, which encompassed Burundi and Rwanda as well as mainland Tanzania, was the site of one of the bloodiest uprisings in colonial history.
