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Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, 19) Dial Press In the New York TimesAn exploration of the subject of Afro Germans, which, in recent years has captured the interest of scholars across the humanities for providing insight into contemporary Germany's transformation into a multicultural society. Since the Middle Ages, Africans have lived in Germany as slaves and scholars, guest workers and refugees. After Germany became a unified nation in 1871, it acquired several African colonies but lost them after World War I.