The Contempt of Public Property: the Datooga Salt Fracas and the Resistance against Colonial Definition of Property in Central Tanzania (1923-1927)

This paper discusses the Datooga resistance to the British land law as announced by the Land Ordinance in 1923. The discussion centres itself in the provocation that the law implied and commanded on the local Datooga’s ownership and control of the natural resources within the jurisdiction of the chi...

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Main Author: Mhajida Samwel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2019-06-01
Series:Ethnologia Actualis
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/eas-2019-0009