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The History of Dar-es-Salaam By Mousumi Chowdhury Dar es Salaam began life as the small village of Mzizima, on the eastern seaboard of the Indian Ocean. In the 19th century, the Sultan of Zanzibar realized its potential as a safe harbour, protected as the village was from three sides by land and set up a trade centre called Dar es Salaam ‘haven of peace’. Dar es Salaam remained a small port till the arrival of the Europeans. The German East Africa Company further developed it as a base for their operations in east Africa in the 1880s. By 1907, when the Central Line railroad came up, Dar es Salaam had become the capital of German East Africa. The German defeat in the World War I led to the League of Nations mandate handing over all German colonies to the Allied nations. German East Africa passed to the British who retained control over it till Tanganyika gained its independence in 1961. Dar es Salaaam became the capital of Tanganyika, and later of the Union of Tanzania till 1974 when Dodoma was designated as the new capital of Tanzania. |
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