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6/14/1950 - East African Introduction (Not Generally Distributed) by Edwin S. Munger

INSTITUTE OF GURRENT VJORLD AFFAIRS ESM Makerere Collee East African Introduction Kampala Uganda East Africa June Mr Walter S Rogers Institute Current World Affairs Fifth Avenue New York New York Dear Mr Rogers This initial letter gives brief background East Africa Specific topics reion where workin months dealt early letters before through South Central West Africa where letters written In Keny Colony Protectorate white settlerootyhas fought a2ddaylaysan important political overshadowi other racial groups The Proteotorate Ilporon nineteenth century anaohron narrow coastal strip technically owned Sultan Zanzibar leases British Government completely integrated Colony Along coast climate agricultural products tropical Culturally Arab tinge eighth century urviving ruins fourteen century Gedi populaon minority traffic sailing Mombasa Arabia winds monsoon Kiswahili language partly Arab tribe become modified ln_gua franoa East Africa Inland occupied pastoral people Farther coast elevation increases precipitation hiher tribes notably Kikuyu subsistence agriculture Beyond great Rift Valley white highlands meadows forests trout streams Here altitude around European farming Asia produced fourth racial element Kenya An expanding population Hindus Moslem Sikhs Goans third fourth eneration Africa cozentrated urban centers where dminte trade service functions country Very different Ug pretectorate_ Pelitlcal control Kenya concentrated eCvernor But where settlers battle Colonial Office power Kenya African community Uganda exercises pressure Both London authorities local officialdom sensitive African influence especially Kingdom Buganda The Baganda highly developed tribe East Africa Europeans arrived numbers fifty years Here Lord Luard developed principal indirect later applied Nigerian nirates When British Goverzment Uganda Nairobi None To Be Wor sined agreement Kabaka Kin shippedButAllah Mod Buganda thatreservedcertainr andpartlou Is His Prouhet larlv those dealinz alienation ESM African overnment Strict limitation sales Africans firmly supported British chief reason relatively small number Europeans Asians Protectorate Uganda differs neighbors richness adequate rainfall Except parts north country tropical tropical despie elevation An abundant cotton oonstitutin Uganda exports smaller crops coffee create money income Cotton individual African landowners CONTRASTS IN EAST AFRICA S MULTI RACIAL SOCIETIES O O O O UGANDA KENYA TANGANY KA Source East African Economic Statistical Bulletin No December ESM I small holdings processed Asian ginneries everseas under sellin areements This month reail business pickin Uenda cotton picked ginned rowers These substantial ments fidin their small Indian dukes cloth bicycles F6 As money business eneral receivln yearly fillip scattered about oountrysideo This _see_n_e _mon_s Tanganyia Territory first consolidatedas Ge ran8st Afrloa became British mandate under League United Nations trust territory Political control concentrated British administering authority states intention using benefit African majority people unlike Uganda little interest matters A European settler oommmity restricted areas thoroughly British Kenya It caught between antithetical forces UN keenly interested sympa thetic European group Kenya A Haas Famed fighting qualities still hostile white civilization The territory generally rasesheplainsoN E Ta_nsanyika lying anddry Itsoverallpro gress roads deplorable existent behind neighbors Although agricultural production subsistence basis worth sisal worth coffee expord annually Americans visitin Tanganyika famed hunting grounds years Large numbers still Serengeti Plain safaris aspect Of strongly criticized Ground sunflower Scheme ameliorate world shortage discussed attracted world attention Such short summary East Africa necessarily generalized Subsequent letters amplify brief introduction Sincerely yours Edwin S Munger P S It truism Africa continent diversity To distinguish between first observation general knowledge attached shewing limited areas personal experience OoooooO STUDY SITES O TRAVEL RECONNAISSANCE BY CAR BY RAIL BY SHIP Received New York