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Title:Traders, 'Big Men' and Prophets: Political Continuity and Crisis in Maji Maji Rebellion in Southeast Tanzania
Author:Becker, FelicitasISNI
Year:2004
Periodical:The Journal of African History
Volume:45
Issue:1
Period:March
Pages:1-22
Language:English
Geographic term:Tanzania
Subjects:local politics
Maji Maji uprising
History and Exploration
Ethnic and Race Relations
colonialism
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Economics and Trade
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/4100330
Abstract:This article places the origins of the Maji Maji rebellion, which shook German East Africa (now Tanzania) in 1905-1907, within the context of tensions between coast and interior, and between 'big man' leaders and their followers, which grew out of the expansion of trade and warfare in the second half of the nineteenth century. Without discounting its importance as a reaction against colonial rule, the paper argues that the rebellion was driven also by the ambitions of local leaders and by opposition to the expansion of indigenous coastal elites. The crucial role of the 'Maji' medicine as a means of mobilization indicates the vitality of local politics among the 'stateless' people of southeast Tanzania. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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