Mittelafrika
Sign in to saveright|thumb|Approximate location of Mittelafrika in medium blue and dark blue, with pre-existing German colonies in dark blue. Possible inclusions (Portuguese colonies) are shaded light blue. right|thumb|Alternative planning in 1918, including the takeover of French colonies in Western and Central Africa right|thumb|German claims in Africa in 1917 (British Interpretation of Hans Delbrück's claims) right|thumb|Further German claims in Africa in 1917 (after Delbrück)
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right|thumb|Approximate location of Mittelafrika in medium blue and dark blue, with pre-existing German colonies in dark blue. Possible inclusions (Portuguese colonies) are shaded light blue. right|thumb|Alternative planning in 1918, including the takeover of French colonies in Western and Central Africa right|thumb|German claims in Africa in 1917 (British Interpretation of Hans Delbrück's claims) right|thumb|Further German claims in Africa in 1917 (after Delbrück)
Mittelafrika (, "Middle Africa") is the name created for a geostrategic region in central and east Africa. Much like Mitteleuropa, it articulated Germany's foreign policy aim, prior to the First World War, of bringing the region under German domination. Mittelafrika would presumably be an agglomeration of German colonies in Africa, while Mitteleuropa was conceptualised as a geostrategic buffer zone between Germany and Imperial Russia to be filled with puppet states.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mittelafrika” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.