German Africa

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noun

1. the former German colonies in Africa, comprising German East Africa, German Southwest Africa, Cameroons, and Togoland.

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German Africa

German Africa alone will give us a balance of power in the East and in Africa.

From World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill

In the same review Emil Zimmermann explains the rôle of German East Africa in the future scheme of world power: German Africa would have balance of power in the East.

From World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill

Then we had to turn down Ninth Street because we saw C.D. coming, with whom we had previously agreed that Great Britain should have German Africa.

From Mince Pie by Christopher Morley

I pictured a flight across the Kalahari to German Africa, the crackling, parching days, the wonderful blue-velvet nights.

From The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

Lloyd George has declared "the general principle of national self-determination applicable at least to German Africa," while Chancellor Hertling once welcomed a discussion "on the reconstruction of the world's colonial possessions."

From Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

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