The British hoped to use Portugal as a chess piece to probe East Africa; this was only reasonable. Portugal's colonial holdings were not small, and they happened to lie on East Africa's left and right flanks. Thus, East Africa and the Portuguese had unavoidable geopolitical conflicts. No one would believe that East Africa had no designs on Portugal's two colonies.
However, whether the British could persuade the Portuguese to serve as this blade was another question. At the very least, Leiford, Mozambique's new governor, held some fear of East Africa. East Africa did not know of the British scheme, and as far as it was concerned, apart from Belgium, which had communicated with East Africa, every neighboring country was a suspicious presence.
In 1877, Soga City.
King Constantin personally visited this city of science and technology in East Africa to attend the opening ceremonies of the National Agricultural College and Soga Normal School.
The National Agricultural College was the first university planned by East Africa. Agriculture was not only East Africa's leading industry, but East Africa also had more agricultural scientists than scientists in any other field, making it easy enough to cobble one together.
Soga Normal School, meanwhile, was a rather special institution. It was not a university, yet it stood one level above East African secondary schools, specializing in training primary and secondary school teachers. Its teaching staff also came from an unusual source: normal-school-trained personnel whom East Africa had cultivated itself in the Principality of Hechingen. Still, it could barely be counted as part of higher education.
Constantin said, "Mr. Angros, I am very pleased that you can contribute to East Africa's agricultural education!"
"Your Majesty, I never expected you to attend in person. This truly honors me." Angros was somewhat flattered and overwhelmed.
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