Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Hamburg, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-375).

This thesis deals with colonial legacies in West Africa. The aim is to analyze British and French colonial legacies in West African political systems. Methodology is based on comparative analysis on four levels, namely: international system, state, civil society and political leaders. The first analytical part deals with comparison of British and French colonial rule in West Africa. The second part focuses on colonial legacies in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.

The diploma thesis Totalitarian tendencies of German colonial policies deals with German colonial policies towards Africans in the period between 1884-1914. The main focus is placed on the characteristics and analysis of German native policy in the most important of German colonies - German South West Africa. This piece attempts to pinpoint the relationship between the colonizers and the colonized, to illustrate the racist prejudice of the Germans and to describe the impact of these ideas on the colonial reality. Furthermore, this work reflects upon the Herero war, with particular interest being paid to the German war strategy, and tries to identify the reasons behind its radicalization as well as to resolve the query concerning the genocidal intent. The totalitarianism section of this thesis explores the totalitarian aspects of German native policy in German South West Africa and their development following the Herero war. A comparison of German colonial policies towards the natives with colonial policies of the other major powers active on the African continent follows. The final chapter endeavours to answer the question regarding the continuity of German history and continuity between German colonialism and National Socialism.

This thesis aims to analyze stereotypes in Czech TV travel shows with a focus on the region of sub-Saharan Africa. The chosen form of research is a content analysis, divided into three parts: thematic, visual, and textual. Thematic analysis focuses on the selection of topics. Visual on how the camera processes the story and the text part analyzes the keywords. Selected programs that were used for this research are three TV travel shows of Czech production: Objektiv, Cestománie, and Koření. All three programs show that the tendency to portray sub-Saharan Africa outside of the news is rather stereotypical, and Africa's unified media presentation highlights recurring themes: political instability, poverty, or a beauty of African nature.

Fotografien aus den Kolonien sollten um 1900 auch in Sachsen die Realität in Deutschsüdwestafrika oder Deutschostafrika aufzeigen. Dabei wiederholten sich die Motive: Farmleben, koloniale Architektur, das Leben der Herrnhuter Brüdergemeinde in den Missionsstationen, aber auch Bilder der Chagga oder Motive aus Dörfern der Nyakyusa sollten zuhause Erfolg oder Notwendigkeit von Kolonisierung und Zivilisierung belegen. Diese klaren Deutungssrahmen wurden selten durchbrochen. In Sachsen wurden diese Bilder in illustrierten Zeitschriften und Rahmen von Reklame rekonstruiert und trugen damit zu einer Normalisierung des Kolonialismus bei. Aus kolonialhistorischer und postkolonialer Perspektive können diese stereotypen Darstellungen heute dekonstruiert und hinsichtlich ihrer Authentizität befragt werden.:1. Einleitung 2. Forschungsüberblick 2.1. Der Kolonialrevisionismus der Weimarer Zeit 2.2. Dekolonisierung und kritische Kolonialgeschichte 2.3. Geteilte Geschichte aus postkolonialer Perspektive 3. Postkoloniale Annäherungen an eine sächsische Perspektive 3.1. Über den Rand der Welt: afrikanische Grenzziehungen 3.2. Koloniales Wissenscharchiv und kulturelle Hegemonie 3.3. Zur Hybridität kolonialer Zeichen und Bilder 4. Koloniale Deutungsrahmen und ethisches Moment: eine bildtheoretische Herangehensweise 5. Fotos für das kolonialgeographische Institut der Universität Leipzig 5.1. Repräsentierte Orte: Das Beispiel Tanga 5.2. Voraussetzungen der Kolonialgeographie: Hans Meyers Kilimandscharo-Expedition und die DOAG 5.3. Hybride Fotos I: Hans Meyers Fotografien der Chagga 6. Fotografien der Herrnhuter Mission 6.1. Repräsentative Orte: Das Beispiel der Missionsstation Rungwe und der Dörfer der Nyakyusa 6.2. Die Herrnhuter Mission und der Kolonialismus 6.3. Hybride Fotos II: Fotos von Missionaren, Konvertiten und den Nyakyusa 7. Mediale Sensationen aus den Kolonien in der 'Leipziger Illustirten Zeitung' 8. Exotische Genussversprechen Dresdner Unternehmen 9. Schluss und Ausblick Verwendete Literatur Verwendete Zeitschriften Abkürzungsverzeichnis Abbildungsverzeichnis Selbstständigkeitserklärung

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This thesis examines the development of relations between mainland France (center) and its peripheries, French Polynesia and New Caledonia, which are located in the South Pacific. The thesis aims at answering the following questions: which factors have played a role in the mobilization of the peripheral cultures against the dominant center? How has the center reacted to the peripheral mobilization and its demands? Why has the separatism become much stronger in New Caledonia than in French Polynesia? The thesis examines the historical, societal and political developments in French Polynesia and New Caledonia since the dawn of their colonization till the present day in order to respond to the stipulated questions.

The history of Waswahili in Germany before the end of World War II, their life histories and living conditions have not as yet been subject of scientific research. In the period before the colonial occupation of Africa Africans came to Germany in small numbers voluntarily or as victims of violent abduction (Martin 1993). The Germans were interested in the exotic looks of the foreigners, but did not care about their regions of origin. Africa was the unknown black continent, terra incognita, its inhabitants indiscriminately `blacks´ or `negroes´. Their homelands and ethnic or linguistic identities remained obscure, relevant only to a small group of researchers with an early interest in the continent and its peoples. Concerning the so-called Swahili people from Eastern Africa who came to Germany from the colonial period on, one has to keep in mind that until the end of the forties their identities were usually defined by their knowledge of Kiswahili, not by their actual ethnic or linguistic origins. In this article some stories are told about Swahili- speaking people from the former colony of German East Africa, now Tanzania, who came to Germany temporarily or permanently and for different reasons left traces in written records, which help us to reconstruct parts of their biographies.

from the content: „The global discourse of sustainability critically challenges fashion as a sys-tem today and encourages organic ways of making as one of the primary mediums to address the three pillars of sustainability. In this regard, crafts and hand-making play key roles in achieving India’s sustainable de-velopment goals, suitable to its socio-economic context. The growing awareness of this subject points to an advantage the country has in its generational textile knowledge, which presents the opportunity to create employment for the vast communities of artisans. ...

What role, if any, did colonialism play in the history of Europe? To answer this question, scholars have increasingly turned to European border regions. These regions, whose ownership was disputed and often unstable, are excellent case studies for patterns of quasi-colonial rule within the confines of Europe. Historians of Austria-Hungary, especially, have argued that colonialism was by no means limited to overseas territories, but pertained also to the European continent. The occupied territories of Bosnia-Herzegovina, a border region on the fringes of the collapsing Ottoman empire, is one example. This article applies the criteria of postcolonial scholars to another European border region: Alsace-Lorraine. In its constitutional, administrative, economic and cultural status, this Franco-German borderland exhibits many characteristics of quasi-colonial rule that also applied in Bosnia-Herzegovina. But there are also important differences. In extending the question of inner-European colonialism from Bosnia-Herzegovina to Alsace-Lorraine, this article reflects on the applicability of a post-colonial perspective onto European border regions more generally. Such a perspective, it will be shown, has its merits as well as its risks. The emerging differences between quasi-colonial border regions like Bosnia-Herzegovina and Alsace-Lorraine, and overseas territories, are a testimony to the complexity and dynamism of colonialism. It is important not to preclude European border regions from postcolonial discourse on account of their geography alone.