Aspects of Colonial Tanzanian History is a collection of essays that examines the lives and experiences of both colonizers and the colonized during colonial rule in what is today known as Tanzania. Dr. Mbogoni examines a range of topics hitherto unexplored by scholars of Tanzania history, namely: excessive alcohol consumption (the sundowners); adultery and violence among the colonial officials; attitudes to inter-racial sexual liaisons especially between Europeans and Africans; game-poaching; European settler vigilantism; radio broadcasting; film production and the nature of Arab slavery in Zanzibar. A particularly noteworthy case related to European vigilantism is examined: the trial of Oldus Elishira, a Maasai, for the murder of a European settler farmer in 1955. The victim, Harold M. Stuchbery, was speared to death when he attempted to "arrest" a group of Maasai young men who were passing through his farm. The event highlighted the differences in the concepts of justice held by Maasai and the imported justice systems from the colonizers. It also raised vexing questions about the colonial judge's acquittal of Oldus Elishira, while the Maasai who should have been satisfied with that decision decided to take it upon themselves to mete out an appropriate punishment to Elshira instead of total acquittal, and to compensate Mrs. Stuchbery for the death of her husband by giving her a number of heads of cattle.
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Lawrence E.Y. Mbogoni
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Loca condîtîons în Nandî ony accentuate tese eeîngs. Lîvîng îsoated în a savage country, rarey speakîng my own anguage, and surrounded by a popuatîon wose cîvîîzatîon îs on a muc ower pane tan my own are condîtîons to wîc ï ave îndeed grown accustomed, but wîc do not împrove on acquaîntance uness one owers one’s own pane to tat o te savage, wen peraps one mîgt be contented.
Normay ï am eaty-mînded, but te worrîes and condîtîons o te past ew monts ave been too muc or me. A men are not afected în te same way. Oters wît greater strengt o caracter tan myse mîgt sufer îtte rom mora and înteectua starvatîon. To oters, natura îstory or some object o unceasîng pursuît îs an efectîve barrîer agaînst compete îsoatîon. But my experîence sows me tat ît îs but a sma percentage o wîte men wose caracters do not în one way or anoter undergo a subte process o deterîoratîon wen tey are compeed to îve or any engt o tîme among
COONïAïSM AS A “CïVïïZïNG MïSSïON”
savage races and under suc condîtîons as exîst în tropîca cîmates. ït îs ard to resîst te savagery o Arîca wen one as under îts spe. One soon reverts to one’s ancestra caracter, bot mînd and temperament becomîng brutaîsed. ï ave so muc o ît out ere and ï ave myse et te magnetîc power o te Arîcan cîmate drawîng me ower and ower to te eve o te savage. hîs îs a condîtîon tat îs accentuated by worry or menta depressîon, and wîc as to be combated wît a te orce în one’s power. My ove o ome and amîy, te dread o beîng eventuay overcome by savage Arîca, te orror o osîng one’s veneer o western cîvîîzatîon and cuttîng adrî rom a one ods good – tese are te orces wîc ep me to Igt te temptatîon 1 to drî down to te temporary uxury o te cîvîîsatîon o te savage.