Lords of the Fly: Sleeping Sickness Control in British East Africa, 1900-1960.(Book Review)

From: African Studies Quarterly | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Lords of the Fly: Sleeping Sickness Control in British East Africa, 1900-1960. Kirk Arden Hoppe. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2003. 203 pp.

As Hoppe notes, the statistics of sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis) epidemics in colonial East Africa draw historians' attention: in Uganda, perhaps 250,000 people died during the epidemic at the turn of the century; and in Tanganyika and Uganda, hundreds of thousands of people were forcibly resettled from "infested" zones, depopulating huge swathes of land in forcible resettlement that remade the landscape. Beginning with this ...

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