Akida
Akida was a title of local civil servant in rural Tanganyika . At the time of the Sultanate of Zanzibar , the Akidas were commanders of military departments; their appointment had to be confirmed by the sultan. During the German rule in East Africa (1885 to 1918), the Germans took over the title from the pre-colonial administration of Zanzibar and gave it greater powers. Under German rule, the Akidas - then also called Akiden - administered so-called Akidate ; they thus formed a middle level of administration between the district officials and the Jumbe , the local chiefs. The Akidas acted as tax collectors, police officers, and minor judges . Her judicial role was recognized under the British colonial administration that followed the German after the First World War .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shamil Jeppie, Ebrahim Moosa, Richard L. Roberts: Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Legacies and Post-colonial Challenges . Amsterdam University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-90-8964-172-4 , pp. 275-276 ( books.google.com ).
- ↑ a b Felicitas Becker, Jigal Beez: The Maji Maji War in German East Africa, 1905–1907 . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86153-358-8 .
- ↑ Akiden, in: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . Volume I, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 27.