Edited Volumes
2027 (forthcoming). Sakiru Adebayo, Fabian Krautwald, Nancy Rushohora, Hanna Teichler (eds), Memory Studies in Africa: A Handbook (Leiden: Brill).
Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals:
2026. “The Comforts of Provincialism. The History and Future of Colonial Memory in Germany,” New German Critique, 157 53:1, 179-202.
2023. “The Past Will Set You Free: Prophetic Memory in Twentieth-Century Herero Religious Thought,” International Journal of African Historical Studies, 56:3, 385-409.
2022. “Genocide and the Politics of Memory in the Decolonization of Namibia,” Journal of Southern African Studies, 48:5, 1-19.
2021. “The Bearers of News: Print and Power in German East Africa,” The Journal of African History, 62:1, 5-28.
2018. 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.
2017. 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, 269-299.
Book Chapters:
2026 (forthcoming). “‘Was Not All Land One Land?’ Sovereignty and Foreign Rule in the Societies of South West Africa Before 1904,” in German Historical Museum (ed), Controversial Kinship. Colonial and National Socialist Violence (Berlin, Munich: Hirmer), 111-119.
2024. 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), 259-286.
Book Reviews:
2024. Review of Reginald Kirey, Memories of German Colonialism in Tanzania, Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2023. Africa, 94:1, 215–16.
2024. 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, 1–8.
2023. 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.
2014. Review of Britta Schilling, Postcolonial Germany. Memories of Empire in a Decolonized Nation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. H-Soz-Kult, September 3.
Public Scholarship:
2024. “Von Auschwitz nach Windhuk,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 12.
2023. “Namibia’s Long History of Anti-Colonial Justice,” Africa at LSE, February 9.
2022. “The Herero Genocide,” The New York Review of Books, February 10.
Dissertation:
2022. “Branches of Memory: Colonialism and the Making of the Historical Imagination in Namibia and Tanzania, 1914-1969,” PhD dissertation, Princeton University.
Fabian Krautwald 
