HISTORY REVISITED

The Kilimanjaro mountain as seen from Singa village in

Moshi Rural District, Kilimanjaro Region

The Myth of Mt Kilimanjaro and Kenya

Dear all Tanzanians esp. ze wadauzzz,

I want to dispute the over years ongoing rumours that Mt Kilimanjaro was Kenyan; as most of Northern neighbours believe! This unfounded claim came from a book by Alex Thomson a Briton settler in Kenya who at the peak of cold War wrote a book “An Introduction to African Politics, Second edition” and he question why the border between Tanzania and Kenya slipped temporarily before continuing and he says it is because Qeen Victoria wished to make a gift of mount Kilimanjaro to her grandson, the future Kaiser Wilhelm II. the border between German and British east africa was moved accordingly..."

The argument is total FALACY cause we all know the existing borders were made on 1884 at the Berlin Division of Africa conference where Tanzania fell under Deutsche OstAfrika and not after try to look at the map and you will see the same borders exist as a matter of fact the existing Tanganyika borders were later on changed to curve away Rwanda and Burundi by the League of Nations for Belgium to have a strategic upper hand on the control of the DRC, whereas for Lake Nyasa border dispute resulted from the authority on the lake been given to Nyasaland colonial administation by the British who at the time controlled all of EA (after WWI) and for unknown reasons they decided to alter the boundaries to give a room for Malawi to claim the whole lake but all this happened under British rule without the conscent of Leagues of nations or the UN as Tanganyika was under trustee at the time!

As a a matter of fact it is all known Kenya current boundaries came as a result of British colonial policies that dreamt of staying forever in Kenya and therefore tried to create more land area to support their continued movement to invite white settlers to their protectorate, the border between Uganda and Kenya once was all the way to Nakuru but had to change to give more land to the anticipated influx of white settlers that were invited from all over the World to occupy Kenya and it is well known that Mombasa and Lamu were once under Zanzibar and were bought by British and Mombasa became the capital of the coastal Protectorate of Kenya in 1920.

So Mr Aleksandra you better ask yourself if Mombasa and Lamu were under Zanzibar (a known fact that is documented)and Zanzibar later on became part of Tanzania, can it not be a reason to claim the map should go straight all the way to the coast and allow an incorporation of Mombasa within the Tanzania borders? Afterall the Mombasa people are more assimilated in culturewise to swahili people of Tanga and Zanzibar people than other people within Kenya giving the idea a boost since the Mombasa people are compactible mindwise with their Swahili brothers in Tanzania

Check here for more explanation

http://www.indigoguide.com/kilimanjaro/history.htm

Wakupigiga
Geza Ulole