Leslie Anne Hadfield is a professor of African history at Brigham Young University. Her research interests include South African liberation movements and the work and lives of Black nurses in the Eastern Cape. She has accompanied several groups of students on Mt. Kilimanjaro climbing experiences.Festo Mkenda, SJ, is a Tanzanian political historian who focuses on matters of identity and nationalism and the history of Christianity in Africa. He currently serves as academic director of the Roman archives of the Society of Jesus and part-time lectures at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.Kokel Melubo is an associate professor at the College of African Wildlife Management at Mweka, Tanzania. His research focuses on heritage tourism, tour guiding, visitor experience, and community-based tourism, exploring how tourism can create value for local communities. He has led several groups of students on climbing expeditions on Kilimanjaro.

“Leslie Anne Hadfield, Kokel Melubo, and Festo Mkenda compellingly bring African porters, cooks, and guides the backbone of the Mt. Kilimanjaro tourism industry—out of the historical and historiographical shadows by expertly reconstructing their experiences and the durable and invaluable contributions that these vital laborers have made over time to countless expeditions composed of foreign hikers and, as importantly, to their home communities.”—Todd Cleveland, distinguished professor of African history at the University of Arkansas, author of Diamonds in the Rough: Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917–1975, and Alluring Opportunities: Tourism, Empire, and African Labor in Colonial Mozambique

Leslie Anne Hadfield is a professor of African history at Brigham Young University. Her research interests include South African liberation movements and the work and lives of Black nurses in the Eastern Cape. She has accompanied several groups of students on Mt. Kilimanjaro climbing experiences.Festo Mkenda, SJ, is a Tanzanian political historian who focuses on matters of identity and nationalism and the history of Christianity in Africa. He currently serves as academic director of the Roman archives of the Society of Jesus and part-time lectures at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.Kokel Melubo is an associate professor at the College of African Wildlife Management at Mweka, Tanzania. His research focuses on heritage tourism, tour guiding, visitor experience, and community-based tourism, exploring how tourism can create value for local communities. He has led several groups of students on climbing expeditions on Kilimanjaro.

“Leslie Anne Hadfield, Kokel Melubo, and Festo Mkenda compellingly bring African porters, cooks, and guides the backbone of the Mt. Kilimanjaro tourism industry—out of the historical and historiographical shadows by expertly reconstructing their experiences and the durable and invaluable contributions that these vital laborers have made over time to countless expeditions composed of foreign hikers and, as importantly, to their home communities.”—Todd Cleveland, distinguished professor of African history at the University of Arkansas, author of Diamonds in the Rough: Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917–1975, and Alluring Opportunities: Tourism, Empire, and African Labor in Colonial Mozambique

Leslie Anne Hadfield is a professor of African history at Brigham Young University. Her research interests include South African liberation movements and the work and lives of Black nurses in the Eastern Cape. She has accompanied several groups of students on Mt. Kilimanjaro climbing experiences.Festo Mkenda, SJ, is a Tanzanian political historian who focuses on matters of identity and nationalism and the history of Christianity in Africa. He currently serves as academic director of the Roman archives of the Society of Jesus and part-time lectures at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.Kokel Melubo is an associate professor at the College of African Wildlife Management at Mweka, Tanzania. His research focuses on heritage tourism, tour guiding, visitor experience, and community-based tourism, exploring how tourism can create value for local communities. He has led several groups of students on climbing expeditions on Kilimanjaro.

“Leslie Anne Hadfield, Kokel Melubo, and Festo Mkenda compellingly bring African porters, cooks, and guides the backbone of the Mt. Kilimanjaro tourism industry—out of the historical and historiographical shadows by expertly reconstructing their experiences and the durable and invaluable contributions that these vital laborers have made over time to countless expeditions composed of foreign hikers and, as importantly, to their home communities.”—Todd Cleveland, distinguished professor of African history at the University of Arkansas, author of Diamonds in the Rough: Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917–1975, and Alluring Opportunities: Tourism, Empire, and African Labor in Colonial Mozambique