Mkenda , Festo (2006) The Emergence of Chagga Nationalism in Colonial Tanganyika and its Post-independence Withering. Masters thesis, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
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Abstract
The Chagga people of northern Tanzania constitute an ethnic community with notable elements of shared identity and significant elements of diversity. During the colonial period, their shared ethnic identity was invoked to create a political unity which was expressed in a form of ethnic-bound nationalism that stood as a possible threat to post-colonial attempts to build a unified multi-ethnic nation. However, this Chagga nationalism began to wither as Tanzania approached its independence and ultimately disappeared from the post-colonial political scene. Both the rise of Chagga nationalism and its withering are local responses to administrative policies of the colonial and the post-colonial governments which were superimposed on the Chagga cultural substructure as a way of gaining control over the people. Neither of the governments gained full control over the Chagga people, and the final result of their policies was always a negotiated end-product, not entirely as envisaged by the policy making governments, but as adjusted by often unanticipated local response.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Mount Kilimanjaro, background to a shared identity, imagining the tribe: political unity in the colonial period, territorial politics and the withering of chagga nationalisn, |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DT Africa |
| Divisions: | Africana Jesuitica |
| Depositing User: | JHI Africa |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2014 14:30 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Jul 2019 10:28 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/58 |
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