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

[Laurence Horn]

On Apr 27, 2012, at 4:56 PM, Dan Nussbaum wrote:

> 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.)
>
>
> Togo and Namibia also. I believe some descendants of the original German colonists are still around. Ironically, as I remember it, most Africans considered the Germans better masters than the French, Belgian and English.
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>
Not that that's saying much, esp. w.r.t. the Belgians!

LH

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