Publications

Edited Volumes

Sakiru Adebayo, Fabian Krautwald, Nancy Rushohora, Hanna Teichler (eds), Memory Studies in Africa: A Handbook, Brill: under contract.


Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals:

“The Comforts of Provincialism. The History and Future of Colonial Memory in Germany,” New German Critique, 157 53:1 (2026), 179-202 (forthcoming).

“The Past Will Set You Free: Prophetic Memory in Twentieth-Century Herero Religious Thought,” International Journal of African Historical Studies, 56:3 (2023), 385-409.

“Genocide and the Politics of Memory in the Decolonization of Namibia,” Journal of Southern African Studies, 48:5 (2022), 1-19.

“The Bearers of News: Print and Power in German East Africa,” The Journal of African History, 62:1 (2021), 5-28.

Fabian Krautwald, T. Lindner, and S. Nakao, “Fighting Marginality: The Global Moment of 1917-1919 and the Re-Imagination of Belonging,” L’Atelier du Centre de recherches historiques 18 (2018).

A. de Juan, Fabian Krautwald, and J. Pierskalla, “Constructing the State: Macro Strategies, Micro Incentives, and the Creation of Police Forces in Colonial Namibia,” Politics & Society, 45:2 (2017), 269-299.

Book Chapters:

Fabian Krautwald, K. Stubenvoll, A. Eckert, “Global Products? Narratives about Workers and Work in East and West Africa, 1904-1961,” in J. Adelman and A. Eckert, eds. , A World of Narratives: Nations, Empires, and Other World Products (London: Bloomsbury, 2024), 259-286.

Book Reviews:

Review of Reginald Kirey, Memories of German Colonialism in Tanzania, Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2023. Africa, 94:1 (2024), 215–16.

Review of Sakiru Adebayo, Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 11:2 (2024), 1–8.

Review of Pierre-Philippe Fraiture (ed.) Unfinished Histories. Empire and Postcolonial Resonance in Central Africa and Belgium, Leuven: University of Leuven Press, 2023. Connections, November 10, 2023.

Review of Britta Schilling, Postcolonial Germany. Memories of Empire in a Decolonized Nation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. H-Soz-Kult, September 3, 2014.

Public Scholarship:

“Von Auschwitz nach Windhuk,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 12, 2024.

“Namibia’s Long History of Anti-Colonial Justice,” Africa at LSE, February 9, 2023.

“The Herero Genocide,” The New York Review of Books, February 10, 2022.

Dissertation:

“Branches of Memory: Colonialism and the Making of the Historical Imagination in Namibia and Tanzania, 1914-1969,” PhD dissertation, Princeton University, 2022.