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Scramble 17: Brazza, Fashoda, and Cesaire’s Discours – France in the Scramble concluded

The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur

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Pakenhams - A Florid Writing Style

King macoco grants a braza, a station. The ability to build a french station at kuna, which becomes brazeville. And on land, it actually belongs to some of his sub chiefs from the abanjos. He's got a bunch of bullets in one hand and some cloth in the other, and he says, white men have two hands. The stronger hand is the hand of war. So then he throws the cartridges in a hole, and he plants a tree on top. And he says, may there never be war again, until this tree bears a crop of cartridges,. Lots of dramatic gestures by braza a. Pakenas got quite

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