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Chapter 21 - Pages 181 - 190 of "Words cannot be found" German Colonial Rule in Namibia

An annotated reprint of the 1918 Blue Book

Jeremy Silvester & Jan-Bart Gewald BRILL LEIDEN • BOSTON 2003

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
South-West Africa. Administrator’s Office. [Report on the natives of South-West Africa and their treatment by Germany] Words cannot be found : German colonial...

In reply to a request by research.ceda I found the following information. Upon reading it I found it extremely interesting and thought it would make a fine addition to "The Shebeen"

Chapter 21 - Pages 181 - 190 of "Words cannot be found" German Colonial Rule in Namibia

An annotated reprint of the 1918 Blue Book

Jeremy Silvester & Jan-Bart Gewald BRILL LEIDEN • BOSTON 2003

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication...

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I believe in serendipity, that is the luck in making unexpected discoveries.

Maybe I should rather use the term “synchronicity” for what I want to write about.

Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally un-related.

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Yes, I know that it has taken me some time to start on a new/old topic.

I am equally aware that an unusual time has elapsed between my last blog and this. But, in my defence, I must add that I have suffered from some form of writer's block.

The situation in Zim had, in the meantime, gone from bad to baddest to worst and then seemed to improve - only to plunge right back into the abyss of iniquity again with the latest announcements.

Well, let me...