World War I in Africa

What happened in Africa should not stay in Africa.
Posted on 12, May 2015 May 12 2015 2015年5月12日 by wwiafrica
The much celebrated (not by us) ‪#‎WWIAfrica‬ General Von Lettow Vorbeck’s amidst a quick transit stop back in the former German East African colony in 1952 makes a ‘touching’ request of his former askaris to embrace their new rulers, the British...

The much celebrated (not by us) ‪#‎WWIAfrica‬ General Von Lettow Vorbeck’s amidst a quick transit stop back in the former German East African colony in 1952 makes a ‘touching’ request of his former askaris to embrace their new rulers, the British “Continue to till the soil as you’ve always done and obey the laws of our brothers who are now your rulers. We are their friends." 

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