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6 - “Curing the Cancer of the Colony”

Undermining Local Attachments

from Part Two - Fitting into their Way of Life: Local Community and Colonial Control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2019

Steven Fabian
Affiliation:
State University of New York
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This chapter continues to assess the impact of colonial rule on the townspeople, and the ways in which it revealed their attachments to the town and their ties to one another, but it emphasizes an economic theme. I begin with an investigation of the German imperial government’s plot to undermine the Wabagamoyo. Uncertain of how to wrest trade in the port away from local hands, the Germans’ plan was to develop the less economically significant town of Dar es Salaam, located about 70 km south of Bagamoyo, and divert the central caravan routes there, where the Germans had greater control over the economy. Yet building a new city did not mean that it was guaranteed to usurp Bagamoyo as the preeminent trading entrepôt of the colony. During the British period, many of the townspeople plotted ways to get around rationing restrictions imposed upon them by the British during WWII. This chapter concludes with a detailed examination of smuggling networks, revealing yet again the ties among the various social groups which bound them together as Wabagamoyo

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Making Identity on the Swahili Coast
Urban Life, Community, and Belonging in Bagamoyo
, pp. 261 - 294
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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