USA Africa Dialogue Series - Did Germany bomb Nigeria in World War II?

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>Fort Lamy in Chad was bombed from north Africa. Félix Eboué from
>Martinique and as a black he had no choice but to oppose the Nazis and
>their Vichy friends, convincing all the other governors of French
>Equatorial Africa to join him except Gabon, which was fought and
>defeated. Eboué then became governor of all AEF in Brazzaville,
>organizing the Brazzaville Conference later in the war. There¹s a
>reference in ³Casablanca² to ³a Free French garrison in Brazzaville² that
>refers to this.
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>It was my great pleasure recently to visit Eboué¹s tomb in the Pantheon
>in Paris where he is interred next to Jean Jaurès.
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>On Sep 8, 2014, at 1:37 PM, 'Chambi Chachage' via USA Africa Dialogue
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>> Did Germany bomb Nigeria in World War II?
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>> by Jonathan Beard
>> I recently read news reports about some civilians abandoning the
>>northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri because of rumors that Boko Haram,
>>an Islamist militant group active in the region, might attack the city.
>>I mentioned this news to a friend who worked in northern Nigeria 35
>>years ago, and he said that it would not be the first time Maiduguri had
>>been attacked. He said "the Germans bombed it in World War II." Is
>>this true? I was able to find an online mention or two that said that
>>the British--Nigeria was a British colony until 1960--established an
>>airbase in Maiduguri during the war. But was it attacked, and if so,
>>where did the Luftwaffe planes come from? Were there other "strategic"
>>bombing missions by the Germans in Africa?
>> Jonathan Beard
>> jb752@caa.columbia.edu
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>John Edward Philips <http://human.cc.hirosaki-u.ac.jp/philips/>
>International Society, College of Humanities, Hirosaki University
>"Homo sum; humani nihil a me alienum puto." -Terentius Afer
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