• African Roots: Shadows of German Colonialism

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African Roots: Shadows of German Colonialism

By: DW
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  • DW’s Shadows of German Colonialism podcast explores how Germany’s imperial ambitions in Africa met fierce resistance, and descended into exploitation and violence. The series follows on from the African Roots podcast, which portrays the men and women who shaped Africa's past, present and future. We meets big names, and tell the story of others who have stayed out of the spotlight. But what binds them together, is their African Roots.
    2024 DW
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Episodes
  • Injected with fear: the legacy of colonial era vaccination programs

    Injected with fear: the legacy of colonial era vaccination programs
    Mar 4 2024
    Tropical medicine boomed as European powers claimed territories in Africa. Germany sent the famed Robert Koch and many others to the colonies to find cures to tropical illnesses - but also to test new medicines. This shadowy practice led to Africans being mistreated, and many died in the process, leaving a legacy of physical and psychological trauma that has never been properly cured.
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    12 mins
  • Unsettling continuities – from colonial racism to Nazism

    Unsettling continuities – from colonial racism to Nazism
    Feb 27 2024
    Respected German anthropologists made a career from dividing people by race, a new branch of science that conveniently put Europeans at the top. While eugenics and scientific racism was widely practiced in Western nations in the early 1900s, the ideas developed by Eugen Fischer and others served as the intellectual bedrock for race-based crimes committed by Nazi Germany.
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    11 mins
  • Why African nations still fight over colonial era borders

    Why African nations still fight over colonial era borders
    Feb 22 2024
    Why does Namibia have a bizarre panhandle? Why do some Ghanaians talk of being from "Western Togoland"? Much of this has to do with African borders drawn up in Europe during late 19th century. Borders that to this day are still very much contested, and have had deadly consequences. We explore how treaties designed to prevent war in Europe have caused conflict in Africa.
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    12 mins
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