German East Africa
Americannoun
noun
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What it’s about How colonialism shapes the lives of three protagonists in an unnamed coastal town in German East Africa in the early 1900s.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2023
German East Africa was a German colony which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, parts of Tanzania, and a small region of Mozambique.
From Washington Times • Jan. 18, 2023
Beginning in the early 20th century, when the territory was part of German East Africa, the story moves on through both world wars, British rule and to independence.
From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2022
Its founder Adolf Luederitz, its imperial commissioner Gustav Nachtigal, and the founder of German East Africa - today's Tanzania - Carl Peters will no longer have locales named after them.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2018
All the fighting in Africa, so far as the Union was concerned, was in German South-West Africa and German East Africa.
From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick
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