Tanganyika's Population Problem: An Historical Explanation

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Title:	Tanganyika's Population Problem: An Historical Explanation
Author:	Fosbrooke, H.A.
Year:	1960
Periodical:	Rhodes-Livingstone Journal
Volume:	28
Period:	December
Pages:	54-58
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Tanzania
Subjects:	population composition Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports) History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Abstract:	There is a remarkable difference in population density between the area north of the Bagamoyo - Tabora - Ujiji slave route and the area south of that route. Of the total Tanganyikan population two-thirds live in the northern area, which comprisesi one-third of the land area, and one-third lives in the southern area, which comprises two-thirds of the land area. This population imbalance has historical causes. The population in the South suffered from slavers and the german reprisals to the Maji-Maji movement. The population of the North was screened from the Arab slavers by the presence of warlike Hamitic and Nilo-Hamitic pastoral tribes.