“We must not forget the past,” Steinmeier said after meeting President Samia Suluhu Hassan in Dar es Salaam.
He said relations between the countries are overshadowed by the atrocities of the German colonial occupation in the former German East Africa. […]
“It is important that we come to terms with this dark chapter, that we come to terms with it together.”
Discussions will also be on the “repatriation of cultural property and human remains.”
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier lays a wreath at the monument in Songea’s Memorial Park together with descendants of the heroes of the Maji Maji War.
In 2021, Germany offered €1.1 billion support to descendants of the victims of colonial-era genocide committed against the Herero and Nama ethnic groups in Namibia.
