ABSTRACT
In Tanganyika, interracial liaisons between European men and African women were preceded by centuries of interracial liaisons between mostly Arab men and African women. The 1957 census indicates that there were 602 “Colored” who subscribed to Christianity; an indication that their fathers were European. Information about European miscegenation in Tanganyika is sketchy mainly because European travelers and other observers took great care not to mention or provide details regarding such relationships. Like elsewhere, European sexual relations with African women in Tanganyika mainly involved casual liaisons, cohabitation and marriage. In Tanganyika, like elsewhere in colonial Africa, sexual liaisons between European men and African women threatened to undermined the “mission to civilize,” especially because these liaisons contravened the taboo of interracial sex. The German term lochbruder is the approximate of the English term cuckold. After the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885, Germany claimed Tanganyika as part of Deutsch-Ostafrika, which included today’s countries of Burundi and Rwanda.
