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His great-grandfather, Songea Mbano, a leader of the Ngoni people in southern Tanzania, was executed by the German colonial army in 1906, and his head was taken to Germany for racist scientific research.<\/p>\n<p>Generations of the family have been haunted by this trauma to this day. 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