Being ‘Chagga’
Natural Resources, Political Activism, and Identity on Kilimanjaro
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8977282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew V Bender (College of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 199-220 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853713000273 |
| OpenAlex | W2024800004 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 21 |
This article argues that the emergence of Chagga political identity on Mount Kilimanjaro in the 1940s and 1950s can best be understood as a product of intensive debates over the control of natural resources and the nature of chiefly authority. As a result of perceived threats to the land and water resources of the mountain and resentment of the role of the chiefs in these issues, grassroots activists adopted a language of unity using the ethnic term ‘Chagga’ – a moniker long used by the colonial state but eschewed by the general population. With the rise of a paramount chieftaincy in 1951, the term shifted from being a symbol of colonial rule to one of common identity and resistance against the encroachment of the colonial state in local affairs
Colonialism · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Geography · Grassroots · Identity (music · Natural resource · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · State (computer science · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Japanese History and Culture · Law
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,82 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |