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Group: Greuthungi (East Germanic tribe)
People: Harry Johnston
Topic: Anglo-German African Contest
Location: Çan Canakkale Turkey

Anglo-German African Contest

Years: 1885 - 1889

Britain and Germany contested the East African coast in 1885, with Germany establishing a protectorate in Tanganyika.

In the Anglo-German contest for East Africa, Britain makes Kenya a protectorate in 1887.

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress."

― H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, Vol 2 (1920)