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Book Review

Sub-Saharan Africa

Nina Berman. Impossible Missions? German Economic, Military, and Humanitarian Efforts in Africa. (Texts and Contexts.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2004. Pp. x, 271.

Germans have had a complex relationship with Africa in modern times. Germany's African colonies constituted the largest part of its colonial empire before World War I, and even afterward, the idea of a particular German mission in Africa played a not insignificant part in public discourse and popular imagination. Nina Berman explores aspects of this relationship by examining five instances of Germans living in or visiting Africa and, in various forms, articulating views of a "mission" there between the mid-nineteenth century and the present. Four of the instances involve individuals who left a written or (in one case) a cinematic record: Max Eyth, an engineer who worked in Egypt in the 1860s; Albert Schweitzer; the aviator Ernst Udet, who made a movie in East Africa in the early 1930s; and Bodo Kirchhoff, a writer who visited the German army contingent in Somalia in 1993 and published a diary of the visit. In each case, Berman attempts to place the individual and his relationship with Africa in a historical context and then analyzes the resulting texts. The fifth instance is comprised of the experiences of contemporary German tourists in Kenya who have developed long-term connections with that country and have provided support to Kenyans. The experiences of the tourists were obtained through a survey conducted by the author.

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