Doc,Abdulrazak Gurnah takes a look at the brutality of the German officers in
Tanganyika prior to and during WWI - in his novel, "After Lives."
It is good reading and especially so when you remember Swahili as the novel is
peppered with Swahili names and descriptions.
Abdulrazak won the Nobel Price for his consistent description of the abuse
natives had to bear during colonialism.
Mervyn
On Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 05:18:22 p.m. CST, Mel de Quadros
<[email protected]> wrote:
Read about the naval hi-jinks on lake Tanganyika which left Tanganyika with an
iron ship that still serves today between Tanzania (Kigoma) and the Congo :E
https://youtu.be/i5cp-QFzfxU
A great story that may have partially inspired that great movie The African
Queen!!’
On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 serves at 8:53 AM Mel de Quadros
<[email protected]> wrote:
Those of us who lived in Tanganyika in the 1950s or earlier will remember of
the vestiges of the German rule in East Africa. Some Germsin remained in the
common language, Swahili. For example, Germans were referred to as Wadachi, and
German coinage found its way into change at shops. The locals commonly used
‘hella tanu’ (five hellers) for ten cents. This memory seems to have
disappeared fromThe common language in the 1960s.
