Colonial Intimacy: The Rechenberg Scandal and Homosexuality in German East Africa

Schmidt, Heike I.

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“…Their establishment of the war identity in their accounts is very defensive to avoid any evidence for Christianity being the factor for the outbreak of the Majimaji war. The historical study of colonialism needs to be further developed to fully acknowledge the extent of shared space, knowledge, and experience between colonizers and colonized (Schmidt 2008) so as to establish the identity of one over the other. The approach to the study should also involve different fields other than history so as to explore other aspects of the war.…”

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An Archaeological Identity of the Majimaji: Toward an Historical Archaeology of Resistance to German Colonization in Southern Tanzania

Rushohora

2015

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This paper presents new insights on the Majimaji war, which is one of the least studied topics in Eastern Africa's colonial history. The Majimaji (1905)(1906)(1907) was a large scale war of resistance against German colonial rule in Tanzania. This war started in the Lindi Region and spread rapidly to other areas of southern Tanzania. It was primarily a reaction to the exploitative nature of German colonial rule. The archival records that exist are biased toward German sources and information supplied by their African agents who wished to please the colonists and spare their lives. Although local oral histories on the war existed, this has been poorly documented or the accounts have been lost. In this circumstance, archaeology provides an alternative source of evidence about the Majimaji war. This paper presents the intellectual arguments that underpin this research. It explains why archaeology is still important to study popular historical events. Using archaeology, the Majimaji battle sites can be identified and documented so as to enhance understandings of the war and to fill in gaps that arise from the limitations of documentary archival records and oral histories. In addition, this research has elicited public awareness and perception of the battle sites and obtained new insights into how the memories of the war resonate in people's minds.Résumé: Cet article présente de nouveaux éclairages sur la guerre Maji-Maji, qui est l'un des sujets les moins étudiés de l'histoire coloniale de l'Afrique orientale. La guerre Maji-Maji (1905-1907 fut une guerre de résistance à grande échelle contre le pouvoir colonial allemand en Tanzanie. Elle commença dans la région de Lindi et s'étendit rapidement à d'autres régions du sud de la Tanzanie. Elle fut avant tout une réaction à l'exploitation du pouvoir colonial allemand. Les documents d'archives qui existent font la part belle aux sources allemandes et aux informations fournies par leurs agents africains, qui souhaitaient satisfaire les colons et 1 sauver leur vie. Bien qu'il existât des histoires orales locales sur la guerre, elles furent mal documentées ou les récits furent perdus. L'archéologie offre, en pareil cas, une autre source d'éléments probants sur la guerre Maji-Maji. Cet article présente les arguments intellectuels qui soutiennent ces recherches. Il explique pourquoi l'archéologie est essentielle pour l'étude des évènements historiques populaires. À l'aide de l'archéologie, les sites de batailles des Maji-Maji peuvent être identifiés et documentés afin d'améliorer la compréhension de la guerre et combler les lacunes découlant des limites des documents d'archives documentaires et des histoires orales. En outre, ces recherches suscitèrent la sensibilisation du public et la perception des sites de batailles et obtinrent de nouvelles connaissances sur la façon dont les souvenirs de la guerre sont évoqués dans les esprits.Resumen: El presente documento presenta nuevas perspectivas sobre la guerra de Maji Maji, que es uno de los temas menos estudiados de la ...

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An Archaeological Identity of the Majimaji: Toward an Historical Archaeology of Resistance to German Colonization in Southern Tanzania

Rushohora

2015

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“…These findings suggest that despite a long historical record of the existence of MSM across sub-Saharan Africa [35][36][37][38], HIV interventions specifically focusing on MSM are new and limited in scope and scale. For example, 60% of identified papers reporting on HIV intervention were published in 2015 or after.…”

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Participants’ accrual and delivery of HIV prevention interventions among men who have sex with men in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

Nyato¹

2018

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Background: Across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), HIV disproportionately affects men who have sex with men (MSM) compared with other men of the same age group in the general population. Access to HIV services remains low among this group although several effective interventions have been documented. It is therefore important to identify what has worked well to increase the reach of HIV services among MSM.Methods: We searched MEDLINE, POPLINE and the Web of Science databases to collect published articles reporting HIV interventions among MSM across sub-Saharan Africa. Covidence was used to review the articles. The review protocol was registered in the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO) - CRD42017060808.Results: The search identified 2627 citations, and following removal of duplicates and inclusion and exclusion criteria,only 15 papers were eligible for inclusion in the review. The articles reported various accrual strategies, namely: respondent-driven sampling, known peers identified through hotspot or baseline surveys, engagement with existing community-based organizations, and through peer educators contacting MSM in virtual sites. Some programs, however, combined some of these accrual strategies. Peer-led outreach services were indicated to reach and deliver services to more MSM. A combination of peer outreach and mobile clinics increased uptake of health information and services. Health facilities, especially MSM-friendly facilities attract access and use of services by MSM and retention into care.Conclusions: There are various strategies for accrual and delivering services to MSM across SSA. However, each of these strategies have specific strengths and weaknesses necessitating combinations of interventions and integration of the specific context to inform implementation. If the best of intervention content and implementation are used to inform these services, sufficient coverage and impact of HIV prevention and treatment programs for MSM across SSA can be optimized.Keywords: HIV intervention, Accrual, Delivery, Men who have sex with men, sub-Saharan Africa

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“…Anyone falling in these categories could face deportation to Germany. As Schmidt ( 2008 ) argues, the idea of propriety and morality remained central to the colonial projects. Gossip and rumours were central to the life of the small colonial societies, regulating social relationship and maintaining class, gender and racial distinctions.…”

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“…Writing about the famous Rechenberg scandal in German East Africa for example, Schmidt argues that the scandal showed the fragility of colonial society and its construct of the unchallenged superiority and legitimacy of colonisers. “The scandal”, Schmidt writes, “Showed how closely colonisers and colonised shared the same space to the point that the colonial society stood revealed if not naked in front of colonial servants and its employees” ( 2008 :33–34).…”

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‘A German Whore and no Money at that’: Insanity and the Moral and Political Economies of German South West Africa

Fumanti

2019

Cult Med Psychiatry

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While the links between colonial psychiatry and racism figure prominently in histories of the diagnosis, treatment and institutionalisation of the mentally ill in Africa, there is an absence of patient-centred accounts, in the analysis of the efforts of the colonial-era subjects themselves to be pro-active not merely as the mentally ill, by clinical or court definition, but as persons embedded in social relationships with their kin and significant others. Moreover, despite an emerging scholarship, little is known of the experience of European settlers. In this respect there is a need for a more balanced representation, one that shows the ambivalence of colonial psychiatry and its reach into the lives of colonial subjects, Africans and Europeans alike. In this paper I focus on the narratives of a settler in German South West Africa and her efforts to escape diagnosis and institutionalisation. In building on a feminist approach to illness narratives, in particular on the idea of bearing empathic witness, I will explore the ways in which illness narratives can reveal the complex moral and political economies of the colonial world.

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Colonial Intimacy: The Rechenberg Scandal and Homosexuality in German East Africa

Cited by 25 publications

References 51 publications

An Archaeological Identity of the Majimaji: Toward an Historical Archaeology of Resistance to German Colonization in Southern Tanzania

An Archaeological Identity of the Majimaji: Toward an Historical Archaeology of Resistance to German Colonization in Southern Tanzania

Participants’ accrual and delivery of HIV prevention interventions among men who have sex with men in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

‘A German Whore and no Money at that’: Insanity and the Moral and Political Economies of German South West Africa

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