Berlin Postkolonial e.V. is an initiative of people from Europe and from Germany’s former colonies. Through guided tours, lectures, exhibitions and campaigns, we critically examine Berlin’s colonial and global history. The two-year project “A Century of Silence” 2018/19 commemorated the end of the German colonial empire 100 years earlier. We have taken this anniversary as an opportunity to take a closer look at the history of the former colony “Deutsch-Ostafrika” (ca. 1884-1919).

The website “Maafa Tanzania” documents the numerous activities of our project and those of our cooperation and alliance partners*. Maafa is Kiswahili and means “great disaster”. The word stands for the historical experience of the East African population under colonialism’s rule of injustice.