“There is something odd about the map of Kenya. From Lake Victoria to the Coast, the borderline moves in a straight line that is only broken by a small kink. That unassuming curve would not be significant if it did not conveniently place Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak, on Tanzanian soil.”
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Schneppen Heinz’s Why Kilimanjaro is in Tanzania (1996) offers a more plausible reason for the anomaly. “Put more simply, the Germans had gained Kilimanjaro but not Mombasa, the British Mombasa but not Kilimanjaro. Now it becomes evident why Kilimanjaro is in Tanzania: because Mombasa is in Kenya.”
There seems to have been an agreement between Germany and Britain as to the location of Mount Kilimanjaro, with the only point of contention being where the demarcation line from the mountain to Lake Victoria ended. The British proposed a line from Kilimanjaro to Speke Gulf while the Germans proposed a line from Kilimanjaro to North of Musoma. Another map from the German side shows a straight demarcation line from the North Eastern corner of Lake Victoria to Mombasa. In both maps, Kilimanjaro is part of what is today mainland Tanzania.
Queen Victoria might have had her moments of whims, but Mount Kilimanjaro was definitely not one of them. From a very East African perspective, it was either Mombasa or Mount Kilimanjaro. A coastline for a mountain sounds like a fair deal.
Was not possible to get all. Zanzibar was part of the deal. I believe Britain got Zanzibar. Mt Kilimanjaro was never in Kenya. The Queen tried but they told her she couldnt get two mountains. Also the first modern European to discover the mountain was Johannes Rebmann , a German, in 1840.
Kilimanjaro belonged to Kenya but Queen Victoria gave it to her grandson, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, as a birthday gift in 1886.
Thats a myth. Soma hapo juu. Kilimanjaro never belonged to Kenya at any time in history.
We should be thankful we dont have those chaga and wapale guys within our borders.
Why? Whats wrong with them?
Hii sasa ndiyo akili ndogo yenyewe
this is not a myth.Soma juu ya the history of the map of kenya
Chagga gals are the prettiest in TZ, that whole Kilmanjaro - Arusha region & its various peoples are the most interesting part of TZ to me.
now that we have agreed that actually none of us los nyeuthis had a hand in the matter,which other matter should we square out?
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This is the lowest ebb the village can go in debating things that does not add value.
@uwesmake fungua watu macho na zile picha zako za #team-momo
Yeah thats the only reason she just decided to give it away cause there was one on her territory already( Mt. Kenya).
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AKILI KUBWAAAAA
So Africa and in this case East Africa was subdivided by the colonialists.Yaani hakuna kitu tutawai jifanyia.Is there anything that Africa has done for itself let alone the negatives?
Uliza hawa jamaa wemetoka jamii forum wa fafanue.