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Nqobile Maseko

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The Arms Trade in East Africa in the Late Nineteenth Century.pdf - 12 views

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  • Early explorers had commented with surprise on the large quantities of arms available in the in
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      nqobilemaseko41 on 09 Mar 23
       
      If early explorers were able to find a great deal of arms, this suggests that arms/guns were already making the rounds (Arms trade) in the interior of East Africa before Europeans became evident in the region
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      nqobilemaseko41 on 09 Mar 23
       
      "an infantryman's light gun with a long barrel, typically smooth-bored and fired from the shoulder."
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  • apon. Kaffirs in South Africa had found these muskets 'which sometimes burst in their hands' so useless that they had refused to take them in trade from the Portuguese and preferred to receive slaves.
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      nqobilemaseko41 on 09 Mar 23
       
      the Arms trade may have had a significant impact on the slave trade in Africa. as noted here slaves were traded for arms.
  • rican Rifles Regiment-'ioo would be dangerous to fire'.10 Some African tribes, notably the Masa
  • e. As early as i886, a large number of breech-loaders were found in the armoury of a Chagga ch
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      nqobilemaseko41 on 09 Mar 23
       
      Arms were clearly used for prestige too. this is evident in the fact that chiefs like the one in Chagga had firearms
  • these arms will be used in raids for women and slave
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      nqobilemaseko41 on 09 Mar 23
       
      Again, evidence that guns had some impact on the slave trade in East Africa
  • Apart from the great supplies of obsolete fire-arms suddenly thrown on the market by the rearming of Europe, the increase in the numbers of fire-arms in the late I88o's in East Africa was also due to a shift northwards of a trade that had been carried on for a decade or more in South Africa
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      nqobilemaseko41 on 09 Mar 23
       
      A great deal of guns came from Europe. hinting that they were invented there. the trade of guns started booming in East Africa due to a trade shift from South Africa
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      nqobilemaseko41 on 09 Mar 23
       
      leading European gun trader
  • ains) leading the movement. Under an able leader, Bushiri, and well-armed with breech-loaders and a few small cannon, the uprising in its early stages was successful enough to confine the Germans to their two chief centres, Dar es Salaam and Bagamoyo.
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      nqobilemaseko41 on 09 Mar 23
       
      Guns were important for warfare. Arabs had a successful uprising against Germans because of guns
  • d. The trade was merely diverted southwards to the Delagoa Bay route, and by the spring of 1889 huge quantities of powder and great numbers of fire-arms were reported to be passing through Ibo and up the Rovuma river. Slaves and munitions were smuggled in small canoes at night along the coastline across to the mainland and Zanzibar.
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      nqobilemaseko41 on 09 Mar 23
       
      Slaves were smuggles alongside guns after blockade across the mainland and Zanzibar
  • et ivory in the Tanganyika region.35 French missionaries blamed the continuance of the slave-trade in the Lake Tanganyika region on the sale of arms and powder by the Germ
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      nqobilemaseko41 on 09 Mar 23
       
      more evidence of slaves being traded for guns and gun powder. Germens seemed to have been part or in charge of slave trade in east africa
  • taken into the interior was carried by the Arabs in their expeditions for ivory and s
    • nqobilemaseko41
      nqobilemaseko41 on 09 Mar 23
       
      Arabs played a role in Slave trade, Arms trade and Ivory
  • The arms trade in the German sphere also died out in the late I890's as German administration became more firmly es
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      nqobilemaseko41 on 09 Mar 23
       
      Late 19th cent saw a decline in gun trade due to harsh restrictions by German administration
  • ujhistprof on 09 Mar 23
     
    Nicely done - correctly uploaded and correctly tagged.
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New Histories of Firearms and Soldiers in Pre-Colonial and Colonial Africa Violent Inte... - 4 views

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  • firearms
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      nqobilemaseko41 on 21 Apr 23
       
      an example of the role of firearms in african societies (east africa) Arabs had successful uprisings against the germans because of guns. eg Bushiri were able to confine the Germans to their 2 chief centers Dar es Saalam and Bangamoyo
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South Africa, and Its Military Aspect..pdf - 1 views

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  • the country had enjoyed a peace of twenty-four years,
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      ayandandlela02 on 26 Apr 23
       
      South Africa comes a long way ,and getting the freedom was never easy bloodshed and many lost lives , moving from using spears and all those ancient tools when going into war to using guns.
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THE ZULU WAR.pdf - 1 views

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  • es. Thousands of naked Zulus have been shot down by breech-loading repeat ing rifles and murder
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      ayandandlela02 on 26 Apr 23
       
      Guns where not foreign in Africa but they were not used especially when going into war
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Illegal Traffic in Arms - 6 views

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    "the Powers recognize the high value of the Law on the prohibition of Slave Trafficing of blacks, issued by His Majesty The Emperor of the Ottomans on 4-16 Dec. 1889, and are assured that a surveillance action will be taken by the Ottoman authorities, especially in the western part of Arabia and on the routes that keep that coast in communication with other possessions of His Imperial Majesty in Asia." Similar actions were called on to be taken by the Shah of Persia and the Sultan of Zanzibar. The participants also agreed to stop sales of guns and other weapons to Africans. some of the participants were Zanzibar, Gernamy and Italy
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APGLWD930018252.pdf - 6 views

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      a protectorate is a state that is controlled and protected by another
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      nqobilemaseko41 on 21 Apr 23
       
      a protectorate is a state that is controlled and protected by another
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      nqobilemaseko41 on 21 Apr 23
       
      These regulation came after the Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference of 1889-90. it was agreed upon a sales ban of modern firearms in German protactorates in east africa
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The Anglo Zulu War and its Aftermath.pdf - 2 views

Nqobile Matseba

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    the Zulu monarchy was suppressed and Zululand divided into autonomous areas. The king's possessions were seized and was sent to exile in cape town and later in London.
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Nqobile Matseba

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    Zulu War: diary of events of quartermaster general's department, May
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