This article investigates the development and employment of African medical auxiliaries during the German campaign against sleeping sickness in colonial north-western Tanzania. A case study from the kingdom of Kiziba demonstrates how widespread illness and colonial public health interventions intersected with broader political and social change in the early twentie...

The article discusses the German sleeping sickness also known as African trypanosomiasis, specifically in the camp on Lake Victoria at Kigarama, Tanzania. The author focuses on the time period of 1907 to 1914 and comments on the treatment research, commerce, and the political and economic effects on the Ziba colonies.