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RELOCATING MAJI MAJI: THE POLITICS OF ALLIANCE AND AUTHORITY IN THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS OF TANZANIA, 1870–1918

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1998

JAMIE MONSON
JAMIE MONSON
Affiliation:
Carleton College and St Olaf College
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Abstract

In the summer of 1995, I was hiking in the Uluguru mountains above Morogoro in Tanzania when I met an old man on the path. He was carrying a load of wood poles on his head, and we stopped to talk. I was curious about the visible deforestation on the mountainside, and asked him about the changing forest cover. He told me the following story.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of African History , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , March 1998 , pp. 95 - 120
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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