(Excerpt from the book 'The Greek community in Tanzania')
Although the Greeks were among the first Europeans who settled in the then German East Africa in the 1890s, they were considered as second-class Europeans. The Germans saw them as “people from the orient”, “an inferior race which at the best was a kind of half-caste Europeans”. In the statutes of the “Economic Society of Meru” which established in 1909 and included the coffee-planters of Kilimanjaro, settlers of non-German origin were excluded.
This exclusion forced the Greeks and other non-German settlers to establish the “Kilimanjaro Society for Trade and Agriculture in 1910.
