Living in "Cold Storage": An Interior History of Tanzania's Sleeping Sickness Concentrations, 1933-1946 (2016)
Weiskopf, Julie M. (Author)
International Journal of African Historical Studies
Volume: 49
Issue: 1
Pages: 1-22
An essay is presented on sleeping sickness concentrations in Tanzania from 1933 to 1946. It offers information on sleeping sickness or trypnosomiasis which a deadly disease affecting both humans and animals and was first diagnosed in Tanzania in 1929. The British government reportedly forced residents of the Kagera area to move to other settlement sites to control the epidemic. Also examined are the political motivations of the resettlement and the historiography of trypnosomiasis.
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