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A former state in East Africa
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Tanganyika was a sovereign state that existed from 1961 until 1964. It was situated between the Indian Ocean and the African Great Lakes of Lake Victoria , Lake Nyasa and Lake Tanganyika . It gained independence from the United Kingdom as a Commonwealth ...
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Through dialects spoken on the west and north of Tanganyika, these languages of North Eastern Rhodesia and northern Nyasaland and of the Kafukwe basin are connected with the Bantu languages of Uganda.
On the contrary, they were overwhelmed by such immigrants -- by relatively barbarian Hamites like the Bahima, Lwoo, and Masai -- and this over a period of several centuries, for the Bahima had reached the height of their power in Uganda by about 1600, while the Masai were not at the height of theirs, in Kenya and Tanganyika, until 18001850.
The Bantu races, however, exhibit in some parts signs of Hottentot or Bushman intermixture, and there are legends in some mountain districts, especially Mount Mlanje, of the former existence of unmixed Bushman tribes, while Bushman stone implements are found at the south end of Tanganyika.
Asian or European who has adopted Tanganyika as his home is as much a Tanganyikan as a Tanganyika-born African.
Tanganyika is a country with a large amount of arable land relative to the size of its population, and few Tanganyikans lacked the opportunity to farm.