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Tanganyika was united with Zanzibar to form Tanzania in 1961.

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The above statement is false. Tanganyika was united with Zanzibar to form Tanzania. Not in 1961, but in 1964, Tanganyika was joined with Zanzibar to create the modern-day state of Tanzania. In 1961, Tanganyika got independence under British control in 1919, after it was wrested from Germany during the First World War. Tanganyika came into being in 1885, when the land occupied by the most prominent pastoral communities of Africa, the Maasais, called the Massailand, was divided between the two colonial powers to create British Kenya and German Tanganyika. Before the establishment of colonial domination, the pastoral community occupied an extensive area from north Kenya to the steppes of northern Tanzania. After the coming of the colonial powers, they were relegated to an arid region in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, with little or no rainfall.
The correct statement would be Tanganyika was united with Zanzibar to form Tanzania in 1964.

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