IDNO

LS.139182.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Tanganyika. AFRICA - TANGANYIKA 47 - T.1.
Map of N.W. Tanganyika.

Place

S Africa; Tanzania [Tanganyika]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Fosbrooke, Henry A.

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Biographical Information: Henry Fosbrooke (? - 25th April 1996).
Mr Henry Fosbrooke had had a long career of public service in Tanzania and elsewhere in central and Southern Africa. Following a degree in Economics and Anthropology (first class honours) and one year's colonial service course at the Cambridge, he started in Tanzania in 1931 as a District Officer (Cadet). He served in the Administration for 18 years , followed by 7 years as Government Sociologist.
Moving to Central Africa, he served as Director of the Institute of Social Research in Lusaka, as Rural Sociologist in the FAO development project in Botswana and as Co Manager of the UK sponsored Kafue Basin Survey in Zambia. Back in Tanzania he was Conservator of the Ngorongoro Conservation Unit for 3 years and a UNEP Consultant with the Tanzania Capital Authority in Dodoma. He has undertaken other consultancies and served for 8 years on the Board of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority and 3 years as a member of the National Land Use Planning commission. In the course of his career as Conservator, he has generated a lot of his research material and collected a number of environmental , conservation papers, books and other publications. [Source: Northern Tanzania site, www.ntz.info/gen/n00176.html, JD 23/6/2009]