From 1914, British Empire soldiers fought a four-year guerrilla campaign against a small German force in East Africa.
On November 25, 1918, Allied and German forces received and accepted the terms, bringing an end to four years of conflict that had cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of African soldiers and civilians over 750,000 square miles – an area three times the size of the German Reich.
Artist Kathleen Bomani grew up in Tanzania and had been the classroom expert on the first world war.
“I knew it in and out,” she says, “or so I thought”.
Now, she has just finished her lecture ‘What Happened Here’ in Berlin as part of the World War I centenary.
