Marked Ngarambe

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Maji Maji war

In German East Africa, now Tanzania, people of many groups rose against forced cotton growing. A spirit medium, Kinjikitile Ngwale, gave fighters water, maji, he said would turn bullets. Germany’s response, including deliberate famine, killed many tens of thousands.

Place
Ngarambe · Mahenge · SongeaAfrica, Europe
Laid out as
A warTwo sides, a front line, and the turns the fighting took.
Lessons
5 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

The German colonial army and its African troops

  1. IForced cotton
  2. IIKinjikitile and the water
  3. IIIUniting many peoples
  4. IVBullets and famine
  5. VRemembering Maji Maji

Many peoples of the south of German East Africa

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Kinjikitile Ngwale
  • Gustav Adolf von Götzen

Objects

  • Memorials at Songea

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1905 to 1907. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?