Gilbert Clement Kamana Gwassa. Edited by Wolfgang Apelt. With supplementary material by Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig
Series: InterCultura. Missions- und kulturgeschichtliche Forschungen Volume 5
2005 - 330 pp., 2 maps
The manuscript of this book had been lying in the National Archive in Dar es Salaam for more than 30 years, until the Archive and Museum Foundation Wuppertal (Archiv- und Museums-Stiftung Wuppertal) decided to publish it and consequently to make it open to a wider public. The occasion for this was the centenarian commemoration of the Maji-Maji-War in Tanzania, in former times German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika).
The author Gilbert Klement Kamana Gwassa already presented this work as his dissertation in 1973 to the University of Dar es Salaam. What makes it so particular is the fact that it is one of the first studies in Africa about a colonial war from the point of view of an affected.