German Colonialism in Africa

Klaus Bachmann is a professor of social sciences at SWPS University in Warsaw, Poland. He has specialized in colonial history in Africa, transitional justice and international criminal justice. Joanna Bar is an associate professor at the Institute of the Middle and Far East of the Jagiellonian University. Her research field centers around the social and political change in East African countries, with a particular focus on contemporary social and political changes in Rwanda, Tanzania and Burundi.

• 1. Benevolent colonialism? German colonial rule and the reconstruction of Rwanda’s history today. 2. Between the King, the Church and the Emperor – Ijwi Island as a Rwandan, German, Belgian and Protestant colony. 3. The IRIBA Centre & the Young Artists in the City Programme Rwanda: The experience of a Decolonial Documentation, on German colonization. 4. Contemporary conflicts in Cameroon and their roots in colonial boundary delimitation. 5. Four famines in Rwanda. The social and political impact of natural disasters on the legitimacy of Rwandan governance. 6. Paying for colonial atrocities. The paradoxical outcome and the unexpected adverse consequences of the German- Namibian settlement concerning the genocide against the Herero and Nama. 7. A keyhole to Rwandan history. Missionary accounts about precolonial Rwanda and their limitations. 8. The White Fathers and Rwandan Society during the German colonial period (1900– 1916).