German Colonialism in Africa
In this volume, six experts from Europe and Africa present new insights from the field about various aspects of Germany’s colonial rule in Africa, raising doubt about the hitherto interpretations of some important events. The outbreak of violence in Rwanda 1904 was neither an anti-colonial Hutu upri...
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| Format | eBook |
| Language | English |
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Bern
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
2023
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Peter Lang |
| Edition | 1 |
| Series | Studies in History, Memory and Politics |
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| Online Access | Get full text |
| ISBN | 3631896395 9783631902707 9783631896389 3631902700 3631896387 9783631896396 |
| DOI | 10.3726/b20859 |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover -- HalfTitle -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of maps -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Benevolent colonialism? German colonial rule and the reconstruction of Rwanda's history today4 -- One coup, two narratives -- Regional conflict versus ethnic struggle -- Mutual stereotyping in early colonial times -- The controversy about slavery in Rwanda -- An ever-salient fight against non-existent slavery -- German colonial rule over Rwanda from today's perspective -- 2. Between the King, the Church and the Emperor - Ijwi Island as a Rwandan, German, Belgian and Protestant colony55 -- Gisaka as a protestant enclave -- A protestant island under Rwandan, German and Belgian rule -- The dark side of German rule for the royal court -- 3. The IRIBA Centre & -- the Young Artists in the City Programme Rwanda: The experience of a Decolonial Documentation, on German colonization. -- Introduction -- Understanding the burden of German colonization in Rwanda (1894-1916) -- Revisiting the German colonial past in Rwanda with the post-modern generation -- Who are the Young Artists in the City of Rwanda? -- Documenting the traces of German colonisation in Rwanda, putting into a decolonized narrative, by Rwandan voices -- Three sites or areas of investigation -- Some observations to share, to deepen... -- Partial conclusion -- 4. Contemporary conflicts in Cameroon and their roots in colonial boundary delimitation -- German Kamerun (1884-1916) -- World War I in Kamerun, condomimium and partition -- 1. Interstate conflicts: Territorial claims over Bakassi -- 2. National conflicts: The case of Southern Cameroon -- Disruptive land and boundary disputes between ethnic groups -- Conclusions -- 5. Four famines in Rwanda. The social and political impact of natural disasters on the legitimacy of Rwandan governance135
- Nyundo, founded in 1901. -- Rwasa, Mulera province, founded in 1903 (Frs. Classe, Dufays, Brother Herménégilde). -- Mibirizi, also founded in 1903 (Frs. Zumbiel [Zuembiehl], Cunrath, Verfurth). -- Murunda, founded in 1909-10 and Rulindo in 1909. -- Kabgaye, founded in 1905-1906. -- Nyaruhengeri founded in 1910. -- II. The missionaries were divided on the method to adopt towards the Banyarwanda to convert them. -- III. My Lord was not understood... but above all he was not listened to. Everything was hidden from him, or more or less. -- Year 1905 -- Year 1906 -- In 1914, in the month of June, Monseigneur founded the post of "Bushiru" between Nyundo and Rwasa (Irubura). -- IV. Some of the reasons which in the meantime may have accentuated the division: -- V°. The situation - Some remedies. Desiderata. -- A.- Softness: -- B.- Obedience: -- C.- Charity: -- The Editors and Authors
- A weak king in a ravaged country -- The 1905 famine in the North -- The Rumanura famine147 -- The Rwakayihura famine -- World War II and the Great Ruzagayura Famine -- Disaster and legitimacy -- 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 Nama211 -- Introduction -- Germany's colonial atrocities in its only settler colony -- The main international law concepts for reparations and compensation for past atrocities committed by states and state-like actors -- The negotiations -- An ambiguous result -- The puzzle: Why did Germany agree to pay without an apparent legal case? -- Creating a precedent while trying to avoid one -- 7. A keyhole to Rwandan history284. Missionary accounts about pre-colonial Rwanda and their limitations -- Gatekeeping and creating grand narratives -- The pitfalls of missionary accounts -- Superstition versus religious truth -- The gender gap in early colonial history -- Missionaries' own political agenda -- Conversion by brute force -- Conclusion -- 8. The White Fathers and Rwandan Society during the German colonial period (1900-1916) -- Historical sources -- Difficulty in writing the history of the mission -- The ideological dimension -- The political dimension -- The economic dimension -- The socio-cultural dimension -- Conclusion -- Annex -- N° 1. Letter from brother Herménégilde of 25 August 1907 to Bischop Livinhac511 -- The original version of the letter in French518: -- N° 2 Father Malet's report of 1909 regarding Rwaza525 -- N° 3 Reasons that have been very detrimental for the development of the mission in Rwanda530 -- I°. Politics and bad politics were made. -- Sacred Heart of Issavi, the first station to be founded. -- Our Lady of the Saints at Kissaka (Nsasa).