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No Deutsch-Westafrika

There never was a protectorate or colony of "Deutsch Westafrika". If the expression was ever used this was not the case in any administrative of official way. The link to dewiki is misleading, the article there says nothing about such an alleged colony. Kipala (talk) 07:20, 3 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Kipala: What is the right term to use for the German protectorates in West Africa?-Masssly (talk) 09:55, 3 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for late reaction. Correct is "Kamerun" and "Togo" which were not connected administratively. I contributed to discussion at de:Deutsch-Westafrika but so far nobody reacted and I did not follow up. I myself never found this name outside wikipedia pages. I only know 2 examples for its usage after intense google-search: there was a trade bank in Hamburg called "Deutsch-Westafrikanische Bank" (German Westafrican Bank" - which says nothing about a "German Westafrica" just documens that Hamburg companies had extensive trade with areas in West Africa, amongst these Nigeria). And a German lieutenant Rochus Schmidt used the term in his book about Africa where he used it in the "Wikipedia-sense" for the 2 colonies of Kamerun and Togo. But I never found it taken up anywhere, never saw a map, it is not mentioned in the standard "Koloniallexikon" which was ready in 1914 and published after the war (and loss of colonies) in 1919. Kipala (talk) 17:34, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]