Austria in the history of Maputo
Readers from Austria who are interested in history will wonder with surprise what role their country and an “English lieutenant colonel in Austrian service” I mentioned in 1777 play in the history of Lourenço...
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Lourenço Marques – Maputo – Mozambique: The History of a City
Maputo is gaining increasing tourist, economic and political importance in southern Africa. To understand this development, a look at history can be helpful. That’s why I have included an excerpt from my book “Berichte...
Mozambique: The President (Samora Machel)
For some years now, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has been gaining increasing importance in the USA. Connected with this is an ever-growing awareness of the issues arising around the movement of equal opportunities for all...
New book: For respect and recognition
In March 2020 a book was published by Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle, to which I contributed a chapter. The editors Birgit Neumann-Becker and Hans-Joachim Döring gave it the title “For Respect and Recognition. The Mozambican...
Lubango – Sá de Bandeira – The history of a city in Angola
I spent some time together with my wife in the city of Lubango, which lies in the province of Huíla in the south of the country. The history of the city is connected with...
Ethiopia – Dawn
On 11.10.2019 it became known that the Ethiopian head of government Abiy Ahmed will receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The main reason is his commitment to solving the border conflict with Eritrea, Ethiopia’s neighbour,...
Madgermanes in Mozambique. A personal story.
In the context of the conference “Respekt und Anerkennung” [Respect and Recognition] in February 2019 in Magdeburg, the topic of the “Madgermanes”, Mozambican contract workers in the GDR, was one of the focal points....
What traces have we left behind? Contribution to the conference “Respect and Recognition” in Magdeburg
From 22 to 24 February 2019 the “International Conference on Development Cooperation Mozambique-Germany with a Focus on Contract Work and Experts on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the State Treaty of the...
Model student Rwanda – Opportunity for the African continent?
Many politicians use in their speeches the already standardised phrase of “currently the greatest challenge for the EU”. This refers to the flows of African refugees crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa and entering...
State relations between the GDR and Africa. The example of Mozambique.
With the transition to national independence in 1975, the victorious FRELIMO (founded 25.06.1962) not only fought for the liberation of the Mozambican people from colonial exploitation, tribalism, racism and lawlessness. It immediately began to...
The Cultural Relations of Mozambique and the GDR
The following article is the long version of an article written for the magazine “Melodie & Rhythmus“. Recently I was asked to contribute to the cultural connections of the GDR with African countries due...
