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“One Of The Good White Guys — Right?” A German Seeks His Ancestor’s Truth In Tanzania

​Chief Meli of the Chagga tribe, photographed as boy (center) standing next to German geographer Hans Meyer, 1870s.
Chief Meli of the Chagga tribe, photographed as boy (center) standing next to German geographer Hans Meyer, 1870s. Wolfgang PFÄFFL / Wikimedia Commons

More than 100 years ago, German colonists destroyed the culture of the Chagga people in Tanzania. Now the Chagga are trying to regain their lost history through books by German missionary to the region Bruno Gutmann, the author’s great-grandfather.

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