Benjamin Bender and Frances and Clem Farny
Contents
Chapter 1: The Giver of Abundance and Peace
Water and Society on the Slopes of Kilimanjaro
Chapter 2: The Mountains of Jagga
Encountering Africa’s Olympus in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 3: Do Not Believe That Every Cloud Will Bring Rain
Water Cooperation in the Era of German Colonialism, 1885–1918
Chapter 4: From Abundance to Scarcity
Rethinking the Waterscape and Local Knowledge, 1923–48
Transformations in Household Water Management, 1930–50
Chapter 6: More and Better Water
Emerging Nationalisms and High Modernist Management, 1945–85
Chapter 7: Water Is Our Gift from God!
Devolution and Cost Recovery in the Neoliberal Era
Chapter 8: It Is God’s Will, and Also Deforestation
Global versus Local in the Disappearance of the Glaciers
Illustrations
MAPS
Tanzania and Mount Kilimanjaro
I.1. Prominent chiefdoms and rivers
2.1. Nineteenth-century trading routes
3.1. Land alienation, 1914
6.1. Kilimanjaro in 1945
7.1. The Pangani Basin
8.1. Maximum glacier extents on Kilimanjaro
FIGURES
I.1. Kilimanjaro from Moshi Town
1.3. Women collecting water from a river
2.1. Sketch of Harry Johnston’s homestead in Moshi
3.1. Kilema Parish
3.2. Intake for Mtakatifu canal
3.3. Child picking coffee
3.4. View of Kilimanjaro by Walter von Ruckteschell
6.1. Water pipeline intake, Kilema
6.2. Public tap, Kilema
6.3. Cholo Dam, Kirua Vunjo
6.4. Mangi Mkuu Marealle with the secretary of state for the colonies
6.5. Nyirenda at Kibo Peak
6.6. Postage stamps featuring Kilimanjaro from the early 1960s
7.1. Sluice gate, Machame
7.2. Woman procuring water from a canal
C.1. Maji ni Uhai, Moshi Town
TABLES
