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Inside this famed skull had been the shrewd brain of the black Sultan Mkwawa of Tanganyika. Some say he died by his own hand, others that he was beheaded when his rebellion in the 90's against the Imperial Germanization of East Africa failed and he was about to be captured. Inside the living skulls of the Negroes ot East Africa grew a superstition that they were doomed to endless calamity until Mkwawa's skull was returned to them The Britons who tried to rule them bribed the tribal chiefs into loyalty. But without the skull, the chiefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Treaty Skull | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

Above the European city's sleepless roar that throbs across the city's zoo, rises every night a roar of animal voices, voices from Africa and Asia, from the polar ice, the plains of Tanganyika, the primeval forests of Borneo. Lions groan and tigers moan. Elephants trumpet like thunder. Wolves howl, hyenas laugh, monkeys screech. But all cry the same thing: "How long must we remain captive? What have we done that we should suffer so horribly? Why are we here? Why?" Sleepy humans do not answer, do not even hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anarch Monarch | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

Professor Reck found the skeleton in a district of Tanganyika Territory (then German East Africa) called Oldoway (pronounced Oldo-wah-ee) or "place of fossils." It is the complete fossilized skeleton of a grown man lying on his right side, with his knees drawn up to his chin and his arms folded. Professor Reck found it high up the side of a gorge where he had found the fossilized bones of extinct animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Oldest Man? | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...Nairobi grey-haired convivial Hunter Rattray is best known for his work in domesticating zebras. The Tanganyika government gave him an experimental farm, where he has succeeded in breaking the larger and more modestly patterned Grevy's zebra to harness. The work is of great interest to African settlers for, though zebras lack the stamina of horses, asses, or mules, they are immune to the deadly tsetse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fiery Furness | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...black chiefs represented 10,000,000 of His Majesty's subjects. The white baron is Chairman of the joint Parliamentary Commission for East Africa. One fine day the Commission will decide whether Kenya Colony is to be federated with Uganda and Tanganyika, thus creating a new "Dominion of East Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Dominion? | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

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