Quoting Perivi John Katjavivi (When asked about his stance on the reparations struggle against #Germany): "All I want is for someone to paint the school in my family's village... I don't need every German to come and apologize to me."

Talking of Germans flirting again with fascism (AfD) and “biogerman” neologism (so subtle 🧐) , came across a review of this 2023 film, which I didn’t watch yet. "Under the Hanging Tree" is described as a supernatural noir set in a small desert town in #Namibia, exploring themes of colonial history, cultural identity, and the haunting of the past. The story follows an impetuous city officer, Christina Mureti, who investigates a series of mysterious crimes.

[…] The plot is minimal and the solution to the murder mystery is not fully explicit. Katjavivi explains that unlike traditional African cinema, which focuses on surface-level events and characters' reactions to external events, his film deals with Christina's internal struggle with the ghosts of the past: "I'm interested in how to tell a story about a history that haunts you, that stays with you, that gets under your skin... that continues to echo".

[…] This design of the mise-en-scène gives them autonomy and control over their presence in front of the camera. This is an act of compensation and healing of trauma, and an expression of what Katjavivi calls the "decolonization of African cinema".

https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2023/films/under-the-hanging-tree

@histodons
#UnderTheHangingTree
#GermanColonialism
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#OatmealQuotes
#FimlReview

See our latest post on the Herero Rebellion against the Germans in modern day Namibia. This rebellion led to the first known genocide. #HereroRebellion #GermanColonialism

https://zurl.co/APN48

https://archive.org/details/o-tama-uli

O Tama Uli: Melanesians in Western Samoa by Malama Meleisea

Topics
#Samoa, #Melanesiandiaspora, #plantations, #plantationlabor, #genderedlabor, #germancolonialism, #germanimperialism, #germanempire, #indenturedservitude

"O Tama Uli is an historical account of Melanesian indentured labour in Western Samoa."

https://archive.org/details/maji-maji-1

Records of the Maji Maji Rising, Part One by G. C. K. Gwassa; John Iliffe

Topics
#MajiMajiRising, #MajiMaji, #MajiMajiUprising, #MajiMajiRebellion, #anticolonialism, #germancolonialism, #germanimperialism, #germanempire, #historyofTanzania, #Tanzanianhistory, #VitavyaMajiMaji, #germaneastAfrica

Historical Association of Tanzania Paper #4

It does not seem like there was ever a part 2

https://archive.org/details/radical-nationalism-in-cameroun

Radical Nationalism in Cameroun: Social Origins of the U.P.C. Rebellion by Richard A. Joseph

Topics
#UniondespopulationsduCameroun, #UPC, #Cameroun, #Kamerun, #Cameroon, #RadicalNationalism, #RevolutionaryNationalism, #AntiColonialism, #GermanColonialism, #BritishColonialism, #FrenchColonialism, #AntiImperialism, #Politicalindependence, #TradeUnionism, #GuerillaWarfare, #Organisation, #SocialMovements

"The Union des Populations du Cameroun is a particularly interesting subject for a case study in African politics because it went against the dominant pattern of nationalist policies in French sub-Saharan Africa. It demanded the independence of Cameroun from Greater France; it called for reunification with the neighbouring colony of the British Cameroons; it viewed colonialism as based on capitalist exploitation and did not hesitate to say so, and it persisted in this radical challenge despite intense administrative and, later, military repression.

https://archive.org/details/blackeurope

Black Europe and the African Diaspora by Darlene Clark Hine; Trica Danielle Keaton; Stephen Small; Allison Blakely; Dienke Hondius; Eileen Julien; Tina M. Campt; T. Sharpley-Whiting; Tiffany Ruby Patterson; Alessandra Di Maio; Fred Constant; Alexander G. Weheliye; Tyler Stovall; Jacqueline Nassy Brown; Kwame Nimako; Terri Francis; Michelle M. Wright; Gloria Wekker; Barnor Hesse

Topics
#europe, #BlacStudies, #antiblackness, #blackchattelslavery, #imperialism, #colonialism, #blackdiaspora, #AfroEurope, #netherlands, #nederland, #holland, #dutchcolonialism, #france, #frenchcolonialism, #italy, #italia, #italiancolonialism, #germany, #deutschland, #germancolonialism, #unitedstatesofamerika, #blackeuropeans, #Afropean, #immigration, #migration, #immigrants, #xenophobia

This book collects multifaceted analyses of the Black diaspora in europe. “In focusing on contemporary intellectual currents and themes, the contributors theorize and re-imagine a range of historical and contemporary issues related to the broader questions of blackness, diaspora, hegemony, transnationalism, and ‘Black Europe’ itself as lived and perceived realities.”

https://archive.org/details/europeanimperialism

Historical Dictionary of European Imperialism by James S. Olson; Robert Shadle; Ross Marlay; William G. Ratliff; Joseph M. Rowe, Jr.; Judith E. Olson; J. Larry Murdock

Topics
#imperialism, #europe, #history, #colonialism, #dictionaries, #historicaldictionaries, #spanishempire, #spanishimperialism, #spanishcolonialism, #portugueseempire, #portugueseimperialism, #portuguesecolonialism, #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #britishimperialism, #britishcolonialism, #britishempire, #dutchempire, #dutchimperialism, #dutchcolonialism, #frenchempire, #frenchimperialism, #frenchcolonialism, #germanempire, #germanimperialism, #germancolonialism, #belgianempire, #belgianimperialism, #belgiancolonialism, #italianempire, #italianimperialism, #italiancolonialism, #genocide, #spain, #portugal, #britain, #greatbritain, #unitedkingdom, #españa, #thenetherlands, #netherlands, #nederland, #holland, #france, #germany, #deutschland, #belgium, #belgië, #belgique, #belgien, #italy, #italia, #empire, #empires, #whitesupremacy

The major focus of this historical dictionary is on the Spanish, Portuguese, British, Dutch, French, German, Belgian, and Italian empires during the past 500 years.