OT: German identification with/appropriation of civil rights movement/Black power movement was Re: antedating banjo (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

On Apr 27, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Jim Parish wrote:

> Amy West asked:
>> (quick: who remembers which African nation is a former German colony?)
>
> Laurence Horn replied:
>> I do! I do! Tanganyika! (Now folded into Tanzania, and later wrested
>> from Germany by the British, maybe as a result of WWI. And no, I don't
>> remember about this from my childhood, but from my years studying
>> Swahili at UCLA.)
>
> Also Namibia,

Of course, a.k.a. "German Southwest Africa".  How could I have forgotten?  I don't remember what color that was on my old maps, when "French West Africa" and "French Equatorial Africa" were green and all the British colonies (including Canada and Australia, if dim memory serves, as well as British East Africa) were of course pink, to match the colonialists' faces…

LH

> which was placed under South African trusteeship after the
> Great War (and which was the site, before the war, of some truly
> horrific atrocities).
>
> Jim Parish
>
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