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• 1884 - German Exploration of Southeast Africa

  • Germans were also interested in Southeast Africa → German exploration in 1884
  • But this was of a bigger concern to the British, for the same reason that Natal was a concern. It was too strategic.
  • → As a result, the British annexed Santa Lucia Bay
• 1883 - Adolf Franz Lüderitz purchases a bay in Namibia

  • Germany wasn’t a state on its own yet during this time. German colonisation started with businessmen who settled in places to do business.
  • Adolf settles in Southwest Africa, now Namibia. He first purchases a bay, a few days later he buys a whole plot of land.
  • → Treaties between a private person and local people
• 1884 - Reichsschutz and Protectorate

  • After Berlin learns about the success in Africa that Adolf Lüderitz had found, they promise support to the businessmen and ask Britain about their claims.
  • But Britain wasn’t so worried about that coastline.
  • So Berlin gained Reichsschutz → political protection