All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
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Forest Labor and Nationalism in Tanganyika, 1945-1961
| During the 1950s the British rulers of Tanganyika sought to expand state forest reserves from 1% to 14% of the landscape as part of a sweeping policy of colonial development. This was in line with the “Second Colonial Occupation” that intended to develop the colony in order to stave off nationalism and independence. However, the scale of forest reservation exacerbated tensions between the state and peasant communities, which were losing land to forest reserves. While forest reserves led to widespread evictions of peasants, they also created a demand for forest workers. Unlike wildlife reserves, which set aside land to be held as people-less landscapes, forest reserves were meant to be worked for profit. This meant that their success depended on anchoring workers in the countryside to do forest work, a system that was known as licensed cultivation or forest squatting. At the same time timber milling industries emerged during the 1950s that were meant to supply resources for railway construction and export in conjunction with the British empire’s efforts to recover from the Second World War and to contribute to Cold War military security. The expansion of forest industry happened at a time of extreme labor scarcity, empowering African forest workers to demand concessions from the colonial state. They did this by making common cause with peasants who were deprived of land through forest reservation. This paper will analyze how the nationalist movement led by TANU tapped into this grass roots resentment at forest conservation in order to achieve its goal of independence from British rule. It will contribute to our understanding of Tanganyikan nationalism by examining how worker and peasant grievances helped galvanize support for TANU. Sources are drawn from the Tanzania National Archives, the British National Archives, and the Oxford Forestry Institute.
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