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German records in Tanzania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

J.M. Karugila
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German East Africa the largest of the former German colonies had a rather interesting history of care, control and preservation of public records. The aim of this paper is firstly to trace in brief the history of German colonisation in East Africa, as a background to a better understanding of the registry practices and records keeping procedures of the government of German East Africa. Secondly, the paper is intended to relate what has happened to the records of the German era after the colony became a mandate under the British Administration and after the attainment of independence.

Germany's efforts to found colonies in East Africa can be traced as far back as 1884. In September of that year, Dr. Carl Peters, one of the founders of the German Colonization Society (Gesellschaft fuer deutsche Kolonisation) and his friends, set out on a voyage to East Africa to look for colonies.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 50 , 1989 , pp. 12 - 18
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Copyright © African Research & Documentation 1989

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The author of this article is in charge of the German Archives at the National Archives of Tanzinia.

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