German East Africa
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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
Hundreds of thousands more died in the Maji Maji revolt in German East Africa, in what is now Tanzania.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2020
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
The conquest of German East Africa was a very different affair.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various
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