(Excerpt from the book 'The Greek community in Tanzania')
In the 1900s, a few Greeks settled in Moshi and Arusha, on the lower slopes of Mount
Kilimanjaro and dealt with coffee farming. In the late 1930s, 134 out of a total
of 405 coffee estates in the Kilimanjaro area were Greek. Actually, 80% of the
total production was in the hands of the Greek farmers, who owned the largest
estates. Some of these early settlers in the Kilimanjaro area were Michael
Michalakis, Kostas Kalliambetsos, Kostas and Ioannis Papayiannis, Xenophon
Tsiknos, Dimitris and Vassilis Bourloyiannis, Fotis Stathopoulos, Michael
Plataniotis, Leonidas Christianakis, Tzouganatos, Michael Lamos, Evriviadis
Panagiotakopoulos, George and Thanos Papadopoulos, Kostas Eleftheriou, Nasos
Aslanis, Anthippi Papadopoulou, Pantelis Boukosis, Aphrodite Boukousi, Spyros
Markantonatos, Ioannis Varveris, Alekos Orphanos, Lefteris Ioannidis, Pygmalion
Karageorgellis, Despoina Karageorgelli, Paul and Christos Giarinakis, Hercules
Koros, Androniki Gika, Nikos Monas, Antonis Zannetos and Gregory Emmanuel.
