Between 1933 and 1946 approximately 65,000 members of the Ha cultural and language group were forced by the British authorities to leave their home area because of its conduciveness to the tsetse fly. The forced resettlement, which usually involved the burning down of homes and farms, aimed at gaining control over the feared sleeping sickness, spread by the tsetse ...

This article examines the fraught history of officials' innovative uses of wildlife in socialist Tanzania, as they pursued both international and domestic agendas with the country's wild fauna. Internationally, officials sought to enhance Tanzania's reputation and gain foreign support through its conservation policies and diplomatic use of wild animals. Domesticall...