Colonial officials, veterinarians and animal scientists in tropical Africa managed ?native? livestock whose physical and behavioural characteristics, preferred food, and disease resistance were understood to be very different from the corresponding animals of their homelands. Furthermore, they were faced with unfamiliar relationships and management patterns between...

This article utilises dipping tanks as a lens to understanding the relationship between African livestock owners and the colonial state. More specifically, it discusses how East Coast Fever influenced the introduction of the systematic dipping of livestock, and reshaped the nature of veterinary interactions in Southern Rhodesia in general, and the African reserves ...