{"id":82300,"date":"2025-10-01T14:44:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/the-violent-legacy-of-germanys-colonial-rule-in-africa-witness-documentary\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:44:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:44:05","slug":"the-violent-legacy-of-germanys-colonial-rule-in-africa-witness-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/the-violent-legacy-of-germanys-colonial-rule-in-africa-witness-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"The violent legacy of Germany\u2019s colonial rule in Africa | Witness Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer John Mbano is on a mission. His great-grandfather, Songea Mbano, a leader of the Ngoni people in southern Tanzania, <!--more--> was executed by the German colonial army in 1906, and his head was taken to Germany for racist scientific research.<\/p>\n<p>Generations of the family have been haunted by this trauma to this day. John and his wife, Cesilia, a history teacher, embark on a life-changing journey to Berlin in search of their ancestor&#8217;s skull, hoping that it can be buried with dignity back home.<\/p>\n<p>The Empty Grave is a documentary film by Agnes Lisa Wegner and Cece Mlay.<\/p>\n<p>#tanzania #africa #germany #history #aljazeeraenglish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer John Mbano is on a mission. His great-grandfather, Songea Mbano, a leader of the Ngoni people in southern Tanzania,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}