Street Debate: Does German colonialism affect the present?

Germany committed atrocities, starved entire populations and oppressed resistance in Tanzania between 1885 to 1918. But how much of that is still felt today? We talk to a descendant of Maji Maji resistance fighter Songea Mbano, who is fighting for the return of his ancestor’s remains, artists and historians who want the return of stolen cultural objects and young Tanzanians about how they feel.
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[@zedianerkatwishi3930]

In this time and age 2024, a German man owns a whole town in Zanzibar, I want to know if there's a Tanzanian who owns anything in Germany

[@DWThe77Percent]

Interesting...

[@MwendeSchwinn]

I'm so happy to hear the mindset of our young people in Tanzania. Africa is rising and there's no turning back. It's time for the world to experience how it is to be one with the Great Mother💯💯🎯🎯🎯

[@BujuBanton-mw4gl]

77 percent should embrace subtitling and Translation and let people use their native languages, secondly you guys only cover the Anglophone countrys what about the lusophone, francophonie and countrys like Guinea Equatorial we also need to know how youths from those countrys are fairing, hope you'll take this into consideration.

[@DWThe77Percent]

Thank you! The 77 percent is produced in English but DW has all these different departments that translate the program in other African languages. Feel free to check those out as it relates.

[@kerimaabu1359]

The Tanzanian government recently, has sold off 10 PERCENT of Tanzania land to Arabs!! .....and I bet you its an area where the original people have lived or are still living on the land.

[@ridemsk]

Swahili will be added to the seven world languages

[@Emile_Santos]

lets be fair, most African countries have had more than 60 years to make us proud and the majority of them have failed

[@DWThe77Percent]

What's your hope for the continent?

[@Emile_Santos]

@@DWThe77Percent That our leaders develop the respective countries such that we have dignity and no longer need to immigrate and beg for reparations, as reparations are either begged for or taken by force as happened to Germany and Haiti after world war and independence respectively

[@nyakwarObat]

What a silly question. Take a trip to Namibia where they committed a genocide back in the days and go see how they still thieving diamond and the natural resources whilst depriving the natives to this day. 🙄

[@chimakalu41]

1:15 So tanzania was first colonized by the germans? Interesting.

[@joxamorekarisma]

Yeah germans first ...after scramble and partition of african continent we were handled over to british rule!! And some arabic rule in the coastal areas!! 😂😂😂

[@joxamorekarisma]

Many years have gone by already...let what is gone be gone!!!!! Tanzanians should embrace and align to their culture truly..for the betterment of our Nation at large!!!!!

[@DWThe77Percent]

Seemingly, opinions on this defer due to various factors

[@joxamorekarisma]

How ??

[@DWThe77Percent]

@@joxamorekarisma Listen to the full debate and let us know your thoughts as well

[@joxamorekarisma]

I have paid a heed to the whole of it...and that's my thought on it

[@luizmartel7004]

i don't think we should accept any apology, i think africans should be like north korea and be prepare for revenging our ancestors to what they did and be one

[@LilSyl05]

Okay how? By the president shouting that the country is now closed or by having an educated population that can actually enforce that the country is closed with an army and all of the technology that is necessary for that

[@DWThe77Percent]

An eye for an eye?

[@LilSyl05]

@@DWThe77Percent absolutely not. African as they are today would lose anyway. I replied to this because I want to emphasize the idea of solving our own problems on the African continent in priority. I'm not for war, but it's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.

[@decepticon8000]

Calling them 'Colonial Masters' sounds cringey.

[@DWThe77Percent]

That's just how they were called

[@decepticon8000]

@@DWThe77Percent That title must be kept in the past. They are masters to no one at this day and age.