Book Chapter
| 2015
The Norway-East Africa Trading Company in Zanzibar, 1895-1925. Business communication in colonial times
This article uses the Norway East Africa Trading company in Zanzibar as an example of how increased facility of communication aided small businesses in the colonial period. From depending on letter sent by sailships, the company could increasingly rely on telegrams and send mail by regular steamship traffic. The article places the small businesses from a non-colonial country as part and parcel of the colonial venture in Africa.
