On this day in 1905, Matumbi tribesmen in colonial German East Africa (modern day Tanzania) destroyed cotton crops and a trading post in the city of Samanga, beginning the Maji Maji Rebellion, which killed 250,000-300,000 people.

The Maji Maji Rebellion (Swahili: "Vita vya Maji Maji"), was an armed rebellion of Islamic and Animist Africans against German colonial rule, triggered by a colonial policy designed to force the indigenous population to grow cotton for export.

In the days leading up to the rebellion, a spirit medium named Kinjikitile Ngwale developed a belief that the people of German East Africa had been called upon to eliminate the Germans. After the Matumbi tribesmen attacked Samanga, Kinjikitile was arrested. Before being executed, he stated that he had already spread the "medicine of rebellion" throughout the region.

The resulting war lasted two years, with the Germans successfully putting the rebellion down by force. As a means to weaken the rebellion, German soldiers deliberately orchestrated a famine by destroying available food sources, devastating the region and killing hundreds of thousands of people.

Such was the scale of this destruction that, in 1953, journalist John Gunther noted "even today the Southern Province of Tanganyika, the 'Cinderella Province,' has not fully recovered from the German terror half a century ago. The economy of the region has never been successfully rebuilt".

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A diesel ship leaves on a long voyage. When it is 180 miles from shore, a seaplane, whose speed is ten times that of the ship is sent to deliver mail. How far from shore does the seaplane catch up with the ship?

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      • furryanarchy [comrade/them,they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Wtf. Reminds me of this creep I went to high school with who started doing pedo things before he even graduated.

        He would go into fits of rage when things didn't go his way and throw his phone at the wall. He had backups, so he would often get mad about something, throw his phone and destroy it, and then just get another phone out of his pocket and start texting and stuff like nothing unusual happened. He wasn't rich, this habit costed him a lot money. He was also a huge tech nerd and knowing him he probably coded some system to sync all his fucked up beater phones together.

        He also let a cop search his car once, and they planted fake drugs on him. He pled to community service without ever talking to a lawyer, despite the fact the cops even told him they didn't actually have any evidence. I think they were just fucking with him and didn't expect to actually get him on anything. Literally everyone he talked to, and he asked a lot of people about what to do, told him not to do that and he did it anyways.

        Last time I talked to him, he was trying to get me to invest in his business scamming elderly people. Which he started after his business of scamming children into using their parents credit cards to buy Minecraft server slots for many times their actual value failed.

        He literally couldn't understand why I would be opposed to scamming old people, and responded to me calling him a piece of shit by breaking his phone mid phone call.

        I almost forgot he existed, I wonder if he is in prison yet.