The Great Hanging of Moshi: How Germany Executed 19 Tanzanian Leaders Who Refused to Bow to Colonial Rule - TalkAfricana

The Great Hanging of Moshi: How Germany Executed 19 Tanzanian Leaders Who Refused to Bow to Colonial Rule - TalkAfricana

The Great Hanging at Old Moshi, also known as the Great Chagga Conspiracy, was a mass execution that took place on March 2, 1900, under German colonial rule in what is now northern Tanzania. Nineteen local leaders and noblemen from the Chagga, Rwa, and Arusha ethnic groups were executed in public by the German authorities, […] TalkAfricana