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When the Germans colonised Tanzania in the 1880s, they made Kiswahili the administrative language because they feared that if the Tanzanians learned German they'd read Marx (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] comfortable_doug@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Fascists gonna fascist

[–] asustamepanteon3@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

POWERFUL POSTING

[–] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

germany-cool

[–] muddi@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Well that's interesting, it's usually the other way around, suppressing the local language and creating a local educated administrative class to further divide up the locals