Integrating Tanganyika People into Capitalist Economic System: Plantation and Settler Agriculture Economy During the British Colonial Rule, 1920s-1950s

The aim of this paper was to investigate how Tanganyika’s colonial economy was impacted by plantation and settler agriculture. Its methodology mostly draws from archival sources and documentary reviews. The results showed that there were two phases that occurred throughout the colonial era. The first phase, which ran from the 1920s to the 1930s. It was noted at this period that the Economic Great Depression and World War I had contributed to the economic crisis. Each of these had an impact on the economies of capitalist nations. In their colonies in Africa, a few of these nations engaged in plantation and settler agriculture. In addition, Tanganyika magnified its exploitation of its natural and human resources in order to rebuild its affected capitalist economy from the aforementioned tragedies. From the 1940s to the beginning of the 1950s was the second phase. This phase demonstrated how the global economy and politics were impacted by the politics of the Cold War and the Second World War. In order to effortlessly increase productivity, certain colonial economic policies were altered at this phase. In conclusion, the paper highlights the integration of the Tanganyika people into the capitalist economic system and finds that plantations and settler agriculture were critical to the exploitation of the economic resources of the Tanganyika people during British colonial rule. Based on the results of the current study, it was recommended that the labor question has become an important issue in all aspects of development. Human labor should be used with extreme caution by society, because human labor is appropriately accounted for in cases of exploitation.