In Zanzibar in 1878
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| Date of Game | 1878 |
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| Game | Cricket |
| Location | Zanzibar, Tanzania |
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| Description | Football, field hockey and cricket were first introduced into the islands of Zanzibar, in the late 1870s, by workers employed by the British-based Eastern Telegraph Company (ETC) who came to the isles to lay the cable linking Zanzibar to Aden and England (Lyne 1905: 71; Kamati Maalum 1981: 2). The twenty Europeans and eight Asians who comprised the permanent crew of ETC on Zanzibar regularly divided themselves into teams and passed their evening hours playing one of these three games. During this same decade, the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) opened its St Andrew’s College, just outside of Zanzibar town. St Andrew’s was intended as a training post for African teachers and clergy who were then sent throughout East and Central Africa to open churches and schools and spread Christianity. Football and cricket were widely incorporated into the curriculum at St Andrew’s and graduates of the college have been credited with spreading these games in East Africa (Anthony 1983). |
| Sources | Armstrong, "Football in Africa," pp. 103-104 |
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| Submitted by | Bruce Allardice |
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