The political economy of colonial Tanganyika, 1890-1939

Abstract

The nineteenth century was a period of considerable change in East Africa Means of maintain a livelihood, socio-political structures and cultural values were all steadily transformed. Coming on the scene in the latter -part of the century, the colonialists altered the pace and· direction of change; and the initiative for controlling their evolution was forcibly wrested from the colonialists altered the pace and direction of change; and the initiative for controlling with evolution was forcibly wrested from the colonized population.