Tanganyika African Association

Tanganyika African Association
Founded 1929
Dissolved July 1954
Preceded by Tanganyika Territory African Civil Service association
Succeeded by Tanganyika African National Union
Headquarters Tanganyika Territory
Ideology African nationalism

The Tanganyika African Association (TAA) was a Tanganyika Territory political association, formed in 1929.[1] It was founded by civil servants including [[AliSaid. After WWI, TAA expanded countrywide in towns and in rural areas, in 1948, the number of branches had increased to 39. of an earlier association called the Tanganyika Territory African Civil Service association.[2][3] It was transformed into the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) in 1954 by Julius Nyerere.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Stock, Robert F. (2004). Africa south of the Sahara: a geographical interpretation. Guilford Press. p. 439. ISBN 1-57230-868-0.
  2. ↑ Burton, Andrew (2005). African underclass: urbanisation, crime & colonial order in Dar es Salaam. James Currey Publishers. p. 60. ISBN 0-85255-975-5.
  3. ↑ Ndembwike, John (2006). Tanzania: The Land and Its People. Godfrey Mwakikagile. p. 18. ISBN 0-9802534-4-6.
  4. ↑ Osabu-Kle, Daniel Tetteh (2000). Compatible cultural democracy: the key to development in Africa. University of Toronto Press. p. 167. ISBN 1-55111-289-2.


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