{"title":"East Africa Royal Commission Report","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrepared in 1954 for the East Africa Royal Commission’s 1953–55 inquiry, these four maps examine Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika at a moment when the Mau Mau uprising had exposed the urgency of land hunger and unequal tenure. They combine population density, rainfall reliability, tsetse infestation, transport and administrative boundaries with “alienated” settler land and African reserves. Two regional sheets test the prospects of obtaining 20 and 30 inches of annual rainfall; the detailed Kenya map starkly contrasts crowded African land units with lightly populated, high-potential European Highlands. Published with the Commission’s 1955 report, the maps reveal how colonial planners sought to identify land for agricultural development and resettlement—while inadvertently documenting the racialised geography and environmental constraints underlying anti-colonial unrest.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"east-africa-colonial-land-transport-administration-royal-commission-1954-map-p-6-112243","title":"East Africa—colonial land, transport \u0026 administration—Royal Commission 1954 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Map 1—East Africa: General'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA large late-colonial planning map covering Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika, with Zanzibar and Pemba, from Sudan and Ethiopia south to Northern Rhodesia and Mozambique. Roads and railways are shown against territorial, provincial and district boundaries. Red identifies alienated land—land granted or leased by the colonial state, principally to non-African settlers—and the European-reserved Kenyan Highlands. Prepared for the East Africa Royal Commission, 1953–1955, it provided the geographical framework for an inquiry into raising living standards through land reform, agricultural development, communications and economic expansion. The Commission was conceived before the Mau Mau Emergency, but the rebellion, rooted partly in Kenyan land hunger and dispossession, gave its work exceptional urgency. Published in 1955, the map exposes the racialised geography within which the Commission attempted to reconcile African population pressure, settler landholding and the development of East Africa’s resources.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53776274915675,"sku":"P-6-112243","price":130.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-112243a.jpg?v=1786635310"},{"product_id":"east-africa-population-tsetse-fly-rainfall-reliability-royal-commission-1954-map-p-6-112244","title":"East Africa—population—tsetse fly—rainfall reliability—Royal Commission 1954 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eMap 2—East Africa: Population, Tsetse Fly and Rainfall [The prospect of obtaining 20 inches of rainfall]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn analytical map combining population, disease ecology, rainfall reliability and colonial landholding across Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika. Based on the 1948 census, each dot represents 5,000 people; towns give total and African populations. Hatching records tsetse infestation, whose transmission of sleeping sickness and animal trypanosomiasis restricted settlement, cattle keeping and mixed farming. Red marks alienated land—principally land granted or leased by the colonial state to non-African settlers—and Kenya’s European Highlands. Colour grades the likelihood of annual rainfall failing to reach 20 inches, distinguishing potentially cultivable country from land essentially suited to pastoralism. Prepared for the East Africa Royal Commission, 1953–1955, it helped assess where population pressure and environmental limitations permitted agricultural expansion or resettlement. Although conceived before the Mau Mau Emergency, the inquiry acquired greater urgency as rebellion exposed Kenya’s interlocking problems of land hunger, unequal tenure and rural poverty.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53776274948443,"sku":"P-6-112244","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-112244a.jpg?v=1786635311"},{"product_id":"east-africa-population-tsetse-fly-rainfall-reliability-royal-commission-1954-map-p-6-112245","title":"East Africa—population—tsetse fly—rainfall reliability—Royal Commission 1954 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eMap 3—East Africa: Population, Tsetse Fly and Rainfall [The prospect of obtaining 30 inches of rainfall]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA companion analytical map combining population, tsetse infestation, rainfall reliability and colonial landholding across Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika. Population is based on the 1948 census, each dot representing 5,000 people. Hatching shows tsetse zones where sleeping sickness and animal trypanosomiasis obstructed settlement and cattle keeping; red denotes alienated land, principally land granted or leased to non-African settlers. Unlike Map 2’s basic 20-inch threshold, this sheet applies a more demanding 30-inch test, grading the frequency with which annual rainfall would fail to reach it as good, fair, poor or bad. The East Africa Royal Commission used it to identify the best prospects for viable arable farming and explain why apparently empty land could not simply absorb crowded populations. Produced during the Mau Mau Emergency, it gives geographical form to contemporary debates over land hunger, unequal tenure and colonial development.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53776274981211,"sku":"P-6-112245","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-112245a.jpg?v=1786635311"},{"product_id":"kenya-colonial-land-tsetse-fly-rainfall-reliability-royal-commission-1954-map-p-6-112246","title":"Kenya—colonial land—tsetse fly—rainfall reliability—Royal Commission 1954 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Map 4 —Kenya: Boundaries, Land Units, Population, Tsetse Fly and Rainfall'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Royal Commission’s detailed planning map of Kenya at 1:2,000,000 combines rainfall reliability, population, tsetse infestation and communications with forest reserves, national parks, Native Land Units, alienated land and the settler Highlands. Each population dot represents 5,000 people; towns give total and African populations. Colour grades the prospect of obtaining 20 inches of annual rain, separating potentially cultivable country from predominantly pastoral land, while tsetse hatching identifies zones where disease restricted people and livestock. “Alienated land” meant land granted or leased by the colonial government, mainly to non-African settlers, rather than land remaining under African customary tenure or as unallocated Crown land. The map was designed to show potentially productive land in relation to Kenya’s racial and administrative boundaries. Prepared during the Mau Mau Emergency, it starkly reveals a political geography contributing to the rebellion: crowded African land units beside comparatively lightly populated, high-potential areas within the European-reserved Highlands.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53776275013979,"sku":"P-6-112246","price":230.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-112246a.jpg?v=1786635311"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/fr\/collections\/east-africa-royal-commission-report.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}