The German colonial administration in East Africa from 1885 to 1918 imposed exploitative taxes like the so-called 'head tax' and forced Africans to grow cash crops such as cotton for German profit. Although independence came decades later, the economic and social effects last until today. So, how can these historical injustices be dealt with today?
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00:00I want to ask if you can really feel that colonialism still affects you today,
00:04and if it does, then what are the effects that you can feel?
00:08We still do think about it because Germany has influenced our culture.
00:13We have German beliefs now, not just Germany, just Western and from Europe.
00:17After independence, we suffered mass poverty, mass illiteracy,
00:21because even the education provided by them, it was just focused to few people.
00:26Some Tanzanians still think that less superior,
00:30or they don't find themselves in the same worth as Europeans or whites in general.
00:35We always look to the West, for example, imports, exports.
00:39Tanzanites, they're always being exported to the West.
00:41We're not keeping them inside or making our jewelry on our own.
00:43It's our country, but we don't get to decide our own rules, our own matches.
00:47They have to decide for us, and we can't do anything because we are not financially strong
00:52that we can buy them off like how they do to us.