A Yao general refused German overlordship while accepting friendship

Evidence

Machemba, the Yao general, had written to them in Swahili: “If it should be friendship that you desire, then I am ready for it, today and always; but to be your subject, that I cannot be.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 824

Categorization

• CANDY: A pithy, quotable line of defiant dignity that lands without much context.