Orientation for East Africa Program
Lewis and Clark College
Spring 2006
Richard Peck

TANZANIA

One Hundred Years of Political History in a Flash

Tanganyika = mainland Tanzania, the other part (joining together with Tanganyika in 1966) being Zanzibar

[map -- 64 kb] [large map -- 345 kb]

Variety of traditional cultures (perhaps 120 "tribes," compared with Kenya's 40)

Kilwa



Old image of the old Swahili trading city of
Kilwa Kisiwani
(Quiloa in the Portuguese spelling)
 
[historic picture of Quiloa from 1625?, from site of Biblioteca Nacional Marciana -- 114 kb]

No traditional group had anything near a majority (contrast with Gikuyu-Luo competition in Kenya with Gikuyu having majority)

Swahili trade/slaving routes from Zanzibar through Tanganyika spread Swahili language more widely in Tanganyika than in Kenya, although with little influence on the Maasai on Tanzania's northern border, since they were considered "warlike" and thus avoided.

Welcome Page (Karibuni Nyote)
Kenya Index
I.  Kenya Precolonial Patterns II.  Kenya Imperialism III.  Kenya White Man's Country IV.  Kenya The Struggle for Independence V.  Kenya Post-Colonial Settlement 
VI.  Kenya The Kenyatta Years VII.  Kenya The Moi Years VIII.  Kenya: Kibaki 
Tanzania Index
I. Pre-Colonial Tanganyika, Pre-colonial Zanzibar II. Colonial period (East Africa Campaign) III. Independence, Revolution in Zanzibar, Union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar IV. The Nyerere Years (Ujamaa vijijini) V. The Mwinyi Years VI. The Mkapa Years VII. The End of the Mkapa years and election of Kibwete
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Useful Links  Swahili Recipes

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Created by Richard Peck
A minor update made on February 1, 2008