A New History Of Tanzania

Author : Kimambo, Isaria N.,Maddox, Gregory H.
Publisher : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789987753994

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A New History of Tanzania by Kimambo, Isaria N.,Maddox, Gregory H. Pdf

Tanzania, the land and the people have been subject of a great deal of historical research, but there remains no readily accessible and concise history of the country. The aim of this volume is to fill that void. A New History of Tanzania takes its name from a lecture series introduced at the University of Dar es Salaam by Professor Isaria Kimambo in 2002. Prior to that, a book titled, A History of Tanzania, had been published in 1969 by East African Publishing House in Nairobi for the Tanzania Historical Association. That book is currently out of print and this is not a reprint. In this book, Prof. Kimambo has been joined by two other colleagues; Prof. Gregory H. Maddox of Texas Southern University, Houston (USA) and Salvatory S. Nyanto, a Tanzanian, Lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam, and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Iowa (USA); together they have produced an outline history of Tanzania that covers all important aspects from antiquity to the present that is different from and richer than its predecessor. Sources from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, biology, genetics and oral tradition have been used to produce this excellent book. A New History of Tanzania is a timely contribution to academic requirements for teaching and learning Tanzania’s history. It is also a possible exemplar to the writing of other countries’ histories, departing as it does, from the traditional historiography that is influenced by colonial and postcolonial apologists of nefarious external influences on Africa’s history. It will also interest other Tanzanians and visitors to Tanzania who are interested in understanding the country from when it was a territory with more than one hundred and twenty ethnic groups, to a nation with an unmistakable identity as it marches forward.

Author : Kimambo, Isaria N.,Maddox, Gregory H.
Publisher : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789987753994

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A New History of Tanzania by Kimambo, Isaria N.,Maddox, Gregory H. Pdf

Tanzania, the land and the people have been subject of a great deal of historical research, but there remains no readily accessible and concise history of the country. The aim of this volume is to fill that void. A New History of Tanzania takes its name from a lecture series introduced at the University of Dar es Salaam by Professor Isaria Kimambo in 2002. Prior to that, a book titled, A History of Tanzania, had been published in 1969 by East African Publishing House in Nairobi for the Tanzania Historical Association. That book is currently out of print and this is not a reprint. In this book, Prof. Kimambo has been joined by two other colleagues; Prof. Gregory H. Maddox of Texas Southern University, Houston (USA) and Salvatory S. Nyanto, a Tanzanian, Lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam, and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Iowa (USA); together they have produced an outline history of Tanzania that covers all important aspects from antiquity to the present that is different from and richer than its predecessor. Sources from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, biology, genetics and oral tradition have been used to produce this excellent book. A New History of Tanzania is a timely contribution to academic requirements for teaching and learning Tanzania’s history. It is also a possible exemplar to the writing of other countries’ histories, departing as it does, from the traditional historiography that is influenced by colonial and postcolonial apologists of nefarious external influences on Africa’s history. It will also interest other Tanzanians and visitors to Tanzania who are interested in understanding the country from when it was a territory with more than one hundred and twenty ethnic groups, to a nation with an unmistakable identity as it marches forward.

Author : John Iliffe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1979-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521296110

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A Modern History of Tanganyika by John Iliffe Pdf

The first comprehensive and fully documented history of modern Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania).

Author : Gregory H. Maddox,James L. Giblin,Isaria N. Kimambo
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821440056

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Custodians of the Land by Gregory H. Maddox,James L. Giblin,Isaria N. Kimambo Pdf

Farming and pastoral societies inhabit ever-changing environments. This relationship between environment and rural culture, politics and economy in Tanzania is the subject of this volume which will be valuable in reopening debates on Tanzanian history. In his conclusion, Isaria N. Kimambo, a founding father of Tanzanian history, reflects on the efforts of successive historians to strike a balance between external causes of change and local initiative in their interpretations of Tanzanian history. He shows that nationalist and Marxist historians of Tanzanian history, understandably preoccupied through the first quarter-century of the country’s post-colonial history with the impact of imperialism and capitalism on East Africa, tended to overlook the initiatives taken by rural societies to transform themselves. Yet there is good reason for historians to think about the causes of change and innovation in the rural communities of Tanzania, because farming and pastoral people have constantly changed as they adjusted to shifting environmental conditions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Tanzania
ISBN : LCCN:74012818

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A History of Tanzania by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lawrence Ezekiel Yona Mbogoni
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9789987083008

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Aspects of Colonial Tanzania History by Lawrence Ezekiel Yona Mbogoni Pdf

Aspects of Colonial Tanzanian History is a collection of essays that examines the lives and experiences of both colonizers and the colonized during colonial rule in what is today known as Tanzania. Dr. Mbogoni examines a range of topics hitherto unexplored by scholars of Tanzania history, namely: excessive alcohol consumption (the sundowners); adultery and violence among the colonial officials; attitudes to inter-racial sexual liaisons especially between Europeans and Africans; game-poaching; European settler vigilantism; radio broadcasting; film production and the nature of Arab slavery in Zanzibar. A particularly noteworthy case related to European vigilantism is examined: the trial of Oldus Elishira, a Maasai, for the murder of a European settler farmer in 1955. The victim, Harold M. Stuchbery, was speared to death when he attempted to "arrest" a group of Maasai young men who were passing through his farm. The event highlighted the differences in the concepts of justice held by Maasai and the imported justice systems from the colonizers. It also raised vexing questions about the colonial judge's acquittal of Oldus Elishira, while the Maasai who should have been satisfied with that decision decided to take it upon themselves to mete out an appropriate punishment to Elshira instead of total acquittal, and to compensate Mrs. Stuchbery for the death of her husband by giving her a number of heads of cattle.

Author : Monique A. Bedasse
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469633602

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Jah Kingdom by Monique A. Bedasse Pdf

From its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence. While the existing studies of the Rastafarian movement have primarily focused on its cultural expression through reggae music, art, and iconography, Monique A. Bedasse argues that repatriation to Africa represents the most important vehicle of Rastafari's international growth. Shifting the scholarship on repatriation from Ethiopia to Tanzania, Bedasse foregrounds Rastafari's enduring connection to black radical politics and establishes Tanzania as a critical site to explore gender, religion, race, citizenship, socialism, and nation. Beyond her engagement with how the Rastafarian idea of Africa translated into a lived reality, she demonstrates how Tanzanian state and nonstate actors not only validated the Rastafarian idea of diaspora but were also crucial to defining the parameters of Pan-Africanism. Based on previously undiscovered oral and written sources from Tanzania, Jamaica, England, the United States, and Trinidad, Bedasse uncovers a vast and varied transnational network--including Julius Nyerere, Michael Manley, and C. L. R James--revealing Rastafari's entrenchment in the making of Pan-Africanism in the postindependence period.

Author : James R. Brennan
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821444177

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Taifa by James R. Brennan Pdf

Taifa is a story of African intellectual agency, but it is also an account of how nation and race emerged out of the legal, social, and economic histories in one major city, Dar es Salaam. Nation and race—both translatable as taifa in Swahili—were not simply universal ideas brought to Africa by European colonizers, as previous studies assume. They were instead categories crafted by local African thinkers to make sense of deep inequalities, particularly those between local Africans and Indian immigrants. Taifa shows how nation and race became the key political categories to guide colonial and postcolonial life in this African city. Using deeply researched archival and oral evidence, Taifa transforms our understanding of urban history and shows how concerns about access to credit and housing became intertwined with changing conceptions of nation and nationhood. Taifa gives equal attention to both Indians and Africans; in doing so, it demonstrates the significance of political and economic connections between coastal East Africa and India during the era of British colonialism, and illustrates how the project of racial nationalism largely severed these connections by the 1970s.

Author : Jan Bender Shetler
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821442432

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Imagining Serengeti by Jan Bender Shetler Pdf

Many students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as safari grounds—as the land of expansive, unpopulated game reserves untouched by civilization and preserved in their original pristine state by the tireless efforts of contemporary conservationists. With prose that is elegant in its simplicity and analysis that is forceful and compelling, Jan Bender Shetler brings the landscape memory of the Serengeti to life. She demonstrates how the social identities of western Serengeti peoples are embedded in specific spaces and in their collective memories of those spaces. Using a new methodology to analyze precolonial oral traditions, Shetler identifies core spatial images and reevaluates them in their historical context through the use of archaeological, linguistic, ethnographic, ecological, and archival evidence. Imagining Serengeti is a lively environmental history that will ensure that we never look at images of the African landscape in quite the same way.

Author : Silvia Bermudez,Roberta Johnson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487510299

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A New History of Iberian Feminisms by Silvia Bermudez,Roberta Johnson Pdf

A New History of Iberian Feminisms is both a chronological history and an analytical discussion of feminist thought in the Iberian Peninsula, including Portugal, and the territories of Spain – the Basque Provinces, Catalonia, and Galicia – from the eighteenth century to the present day. The Iberian Peninsula encompasses a dynamic and fraught history of feminism that had to contend with entrenched tradition and a dominant Catholic Church. Editors Silvia Bermúdez and Roberta Johnson and their contributors reveal the long and historical struggles of women living within various parts of the Iberian Peninsula to achieve full citizenship. A New History of Iberian Feminisms comprises a great deal of new scholarship, including nineteenth-century essays written by women on the topic of equality. By addressing these lost texts of feminist thought, Bermúdez, Johnson, and their contributors reveal that female equality, considered a dormant topic in the early nineteenth century, was very much part of the political conversation, and helped to launch the new feminist wave in the second half of the century.

Author : Martin Sturmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029152753

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The Media History of Tanzania by Martin Sturmer Pdf

Author : Andrew Coulson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199679966

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Tanzania by Andrew Coulson Pdf

This book gives an account of the political economy of Tanzania, from pre-colonial times to the present. It shows the strengths and weaknesses of Julius Nyerere, the leader who brought the country to Independence in 1961. A new introductory chapter sets the book in context and discusses current issues such as natural resources.

Author : Philemon Andrew K. Mushi
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789976604948

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History and Development of Education in Tanzania by Philemon Andrew K. Mushi Pdf

In History and Development of Education in Tanzania, Prof. Philemon A.K. Mushi, examines the historical development of education in Tanzania, from the pre-colonial to post-independence periods, delineating the economic and social context which shaped and helped to define the origins of various education reforms in formal and non-formal education and their developments in Tanzania beyond 1990. The book has attempted to uncover the underlying context with which the various education reforms were conceived and originated. At the same time, analysis of the current provision of education has been made to determine the challenges facing education provision in the country.

Author : James Leonard Giblin
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780852554661

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A History of the Excluded by James Leonard Giblin Pdf

The twentieth-century history of Njombe, the Southern Highlands district of Tanzania, can aptly be summed up as exclusion within incorporation. Njombe was marginalized even as it was incorporated into the colonial economy. Njombe's people came to see themselves as excluded from agricultural markets, access to medical services, schooling - in short, from all opportunity to escape the impoverishing trap of migrant labour. Focusing on individual men and women, the story is largely told in their own words. It traces their efforts both to defy and benefit from the most important event in the modern history of Africa - the imposition of state authority. North America: Ohio U Press

Author : Priya Lal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107104525

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African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania by Priya Lal Pdf

This is the first major historical study of Tanzania's socialist experiment: the ujamaa villagization initiative of 1967-75.