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The Influence of Settlers’ Community in Shaping the Colonial Agricultural Marketing Policies in Tanzania

SOMO M. L. SEIMU and MARCO ZOPPI
African Economic History, January 2021, 49 (2) 53-76; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.49.2.53
SOMO M. L. SEIMU
Somo M. L. Seimu () holds a PhD from the University of Central Lancashire and is a senior lecturer at Moshi Co-Operative University and research associate with United Kingdom Co-operative College.
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MARCO ZOPPI
Marco Zoppi () has a PhD in Histories and Dynamics of Globalization (Roskilde University) and is a Research Fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna.
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When the British colonial government took over Tanzania, colonial officials championed and encouraged the inhabitants in Kilimanjaro to grow coffee along with settlers. The authorities gave priority to the local smallholders, relegating settlers to a minor role within colonial agriculture and the coffee economy in particular. This generated a vigorous protest among the settlers against the government policy. The tension would bring a number of remarkable developments, including the establishment of the Kilimanjaro Native Planters Association (KNPA) and, later, the promulgation of legislation regulating coffee farming and marketing via cooperatives, such as the Co-operative Societies Ordinance No. 7 of 1932 and the Native Coffee Control Ordinance No 26 of 1937. This paper examines the interlocked dimensions and intricacies related to the coffee industry policies, and their impact on agricultural policies in Kilimanjaro region as well as across the country. In particular, the paper discusses how the settlers’ opposition influenced the promulgation of segregative, monopolistic and protectionist legislations, and the role of control Boards in this process. To do so, this paper relies on existing literature as well as underutilized primary sources obtained from the Tanzania National Archives (TNA) in Dar Es Salaam.

KEYWORDS:
  • agriculture
  • coffee
  • small-scale growers
  • policies
  • Kilimanjaro
  • settlers
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