IN spite of native risings and recalcitrant Parliaments, our German cousins manage to carry on meteorological observations in their African possessions, and some results of their work which are of ...

The strategic importance of the manning of Madagascar was highlighted last week by the following eye-opening account of the German grip on South-West Africa, which is to the sea lanes on Africa’s west ...

GERMANY'S colonial aspirations are confined largely to Africa: that is the classic field for colonial exploitation and there lie the most important of the former German colonies. The problems created ...

Germany has apologized for its role in the first genocide of the 20th century, which took place in Namibia, a former colony then known as German South West Africa. Between 1904 and 1908, German ...

South West Africa is a big (318,000 sq. mi.), largely treeless land that once belonged to imperial Germany and now has the unhappy distinction of being the last of the League of Nations mandates.

This Namibian coastal town feels uncannily like Germany, with half-timbered houses standing next to buildings from the imperial era. The street names in this corner of Africa are also German, with ...

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 biography.

There are plenty of reminders of the colonial past in Swakopmund, a town on Namibia’s coast, if you know where to look. Mechanics work beneath battered Mercedes; doughy cooks prepare doughy strudel; a ...

But not everyone is happy about the move. an undated photo of the Luderitz region in Namibia. The Namibian government has decided to replace the names of several municipalities with those of a more ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Germany's foreign minister on Tuesday called for Russia “to stop the bombing” of Ukraine, a pointed message during a visit to South Africa as it draws accusations of aiding ...