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Making Southern Province Palatable

The Politics of Labor Stabilization through Food Rations in Late Colonial Southern Tanganyika

Husseina Dinani
African Economic History, July 2026, 54 (1) 51-78; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.54.1.51
Husseina Dinani
Husseina Dinani () is an Assistant Professor in the department of Historical and Cultural Studies at University of Toronto Scarborough. Her research interests focus on gender, women, and labor in colonial and postcolonial Tan-zania. She has published on this work in The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Gender & History and Journal of Historical Geography.
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vol. 54 no. 1 51-78
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https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.54.1.51
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African Economic History
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0145-2258
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  • Published online August 27, 2026.
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  1. Husseina Dinani (husseina.dinani{at}utoronto.ca) is an Assistant Professor in the department of Historical and Cultural Studies at University of Toronto Scarborough. Her research interests focus on gender, women, and labor in colonial and postcolonial Tan-zania. She has published on this work in The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Gender & History and Journal of Historical Geography.
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    • SP’s Changing Labor Demographics and Requirements and the Southern Administration’s Endorsement of Food Rations during the Second World War
    • An Impoverished Province—Food Insecurity, the Challenges of Implementing Food Rations and Scapegoating Sisal Employers
    • An Ineffective Policy—African Laborers’ Engagement with Food Rations
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