The Kilimanjaro Native Planters Association: Administrative Responses to Chagga Initiatives in the 1920's

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Title:	The Kilimanjaro Native Planters Association: Administrative Responses to Chagga Initiatives in the 1920's
Author:	Rogers, Susan G.
Year:	1974
Periodical:	Transafrican Journal of History
Volume:	4
Issue:	1-2
Pages:	94-114
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Tanzania
Subjects:	Chaga cooperatives coffee Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment colonialism
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/24520201
Abstract:	Historians familiar with the Chagga agriculturalists of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania know of the importance of coffee cultivation in their recent economic history, and of the role of the Kilimanjaro Native Co-operative Union (KNCU). Less is generally known, however, about the KNCU's forerunner, the Kilimanjaro Native Planters Association (KNPA). Official and semi-official accounts have tended to dismiss the KNPA as something less than a true co-operative, burdened with bad leadership and unable to cope with the complexities of subsequent developments in the industry. This article challenges and revises this picture and makes clear that the KNPA was killed because of its strength and independent tendencies. Notes.