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Colonial states and African societies: Tanganyika

Resources for the study of African colonial history including Belgian, British, and French colonial history.

Tanganyika

Tanzania and Malawi in records from colonial missionaries, 1857-1965
East Ardsley, Wakefield, United Kingdom : Microform Academic Publishers, 
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/14893350

  • The Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) was an Anglican missionary society established in the late 1850s. In 1965, the UMCA merged with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) to form the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (USPG). This collection contains documents relating to the UMCA’s activities in Tanzania, Zanzibar, and Malawi.
  • Missionary correspondence, journals, books, conference papers, press cuttings.
     
  • Includes their monthly magazine, Central Africa, Vol. 1-82 (1883-1964).
  • Note - Hoover Library has some print issues. https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/356189
  • Issues are also online in the database 19th Century UK Periodicals. https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/14896442
 
1932-1961. Not complete.
In Hoover Library and SAL 1/2
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/435190
 
 
The Center for Research Libraries has:
Author Tanganyika. Legislative Council
1931-1961 Not complete.
 http://catalog.crl.edu/record=b1037756~S1
http://catalog.crl.edu/record=b1037759~S1
which includes Minutes of the Legislative Council
http://catalog.crl.edu/record=b1697001~S1
 
 

Tanganyika. National Assembly.
Parliamentary debates; official report

There are two different records for this title in Searchworks. 
One lists 1962-1964.
In SAL1/2
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/387675

The other lists 1962-1965.
In SAL 1/2
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/375428

 

Tanzania. Bunge.
Parliamentary debates, Hansard; official report
1962-1965. Not complete
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/375428

 

Tanzania. Bunge.
Kanuni za 
Bunge la Tanzania = Standing orders of the National Assembly of Tanzania
1966, 1970, 1978, 1981
In KiSwahili and English.
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1907079


Tanzania. Bunge.
Majadiliano ya 
Bunge (Hansard), taarifa rasmi [Parliamentary debates of the National Assembly of Tanzania]
1966-1985. Not complete.
In KiSwahili.
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/417211

 

Tanzania. Bunge.[National Assembly]
Majadiliano ya Bunge
 [Parliamentary proceedings]
In KiSwahili
[Dodoma] : Bunge la Tanzania
2007-2018
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12279950
Legislative debates of the National Assembly of Tanzania.
The current Hansards are on the Tanzania Parliament web site from 2013 +
https://www.parliament.go.tz/hansards-list

 

Tanganyika. [Provincial and district books]
Dar es Salaam, Printed by the Govt. Printer. 27 reels
In Hoover Library Microfilm DT449.A1A3
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9384848
Covers c. 1920s - 1950s

There is no inventory, but see Nassor, Muhammed H., 
Guide to the Provincial (Regional) and District Commissioners' Annual Reports. National Archives of Tanzania, 1977. 56 p.
Hoover Library Stacks CD2487.N38
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1860501

The Center for Research Libraries also has the Regional and District Books.
http://catalog.crl.edu/record=b1402551~S1
28 reels

 

LLMC Law Library Microform Consortium.
Stanford has a subscription to this database.which has -
Zanzibar Legislation 1923-1935
Tanganyika Laws, Penal Code, Ordinances, East Africa High Commission Acts, etc.
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/8336445

 

Records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania in Moshi, Tanzania (EAP099)
In German and Kiswahili. Leipzig Mission Records from 1895 to mainly 1930, some up to 1950s.. 5 dioceses: Northern, Pare, Arusha, Meru and Central.
Contents:
church registers (births, baptisms, communion, catechists, marriages, funerals)
mission council records
education records
diaries
files on individual missionaries, notably Bruno Gutmann, and on African teachers, pastors and evangelists
photographs
first prints of hymnals and portions of the Bible in African languages.
https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP099

 

East African Life-Writing and Colonial History: New Perspectives from EAP Tanzanian Church Records
Swahili-language essays, written in 1913 by young men at a German-led teacher training school. Records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania about early experiences of German colonial rule, reasons for conversion, and the impact of missionary activities on indigenous communities. From the British Library, Jan. 7, 2022. 

German Colonialism in the British Library Collections has a link to the account in German, Reisen in Ost-Afrika, ausgeführt in dem Jahren 1837-55, etc. by Johann Ludwig Krapf,,a German missionary in East Africa between 1837 and 1855. See his book in English in the library and the full text in Hathi Trust  Also from New York Public Library. - digitized illustrations from the book .