Reinterpreting a Colonial Rebellion: Forestry and Social Control in German East Africa, 1874–1915

The REDD menace: Resurgent protectionism in Tanzania's mangrove forests

“…The brutality of forced cultivation and its effects on rural livelihoods led to the largest peasant uprising in colonial Africa known as the Maji Maji rebellion (1905)(1906)(1907) in which over 75,000 Africans were killed. Sunseri (2003Sunseri ( , 2005Sunseri ( , 2009 argues that the Maji Maji rebellion was sparked by the Warufiji's refusal to recognize the colonial state's claims to forest resources and their resistance to wage labor as wood cutters and tree planters for German colonial foresters. The Warufiji were also considered by President Nyerere to be the most supportive against the British in the struggle for Independence (Hyden, 1980 Warufiji resisted attempts of foreign investors to build the world's largest industrial prawn farm in the delta.…”

The Colonial heritage and post-Colonial influence, entanglements and implications of the concept of community forestry by the example of Cameroon

“…Nature and people were made productive (and in actual fact exploited) Oyono et al (2005: 357) point out that commercial logging was inaugurated by the German colonization in Cameroon in the nineteenth century, and under the French and English Colonial periods, it had registered a notable expansion motivated by metropolitan logics of financial accumulation (Meniaud, 1948cited in Oyono et al, 2005Oyono, 2005). Also, as earlier mentioned in the paper, pre-Colonial and present communities had and still have integrated systems of cognition and belief embedded in proverbs, myths and some religious rituals, cultural and domestic practice (Murphree, 2000(Murphree, , 2004Baldus, 2001;Sunseri, 2003) entangled to their traditional CF. Nevertheless, the present CF model forces them to adjust to a solely production and profit oriented CF management.…”

Globalization, Environmental Change, and Social History: An Introduction

“…42 Complaints against the German colonial forest policy fed the Maji Maji rebellion of 1905-1907 in Tanzania. 43 Prior to the emergence of the Zapatista movement in Mexico, the small peasants in Chiapas had suffered from ecological marginalization. 44 In South Africa, a series of protests followed the introduction of the government's policy to prevent the spread of the deadly East Coast fever.…”