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

[Jim Parish]

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, 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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