Revolutionary State Making In Dar Es Salaam

Author : George Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1108964958

Get Book

Revolutionary State-making in Dar Es Salaam by George Roberts Pdf

"From Tanganyika's independence in 1961 to the collapse of the Portuguese empire in 1974, Dar es Salaam was an epicentre of revolution in Africa. The representatives of anticolonial liberation movements set up offices in the city, attracting the interest of the Cold War powers, who sought to expand their influence in the Third World. Meanwhile, the Tanzanian government sought to translate independence into meaningful decolonisation through an ambitious project to build a socialist state. This chapter explains how the lens of the city reveals the connections between the dynamics of the Cold War, decolonisation, and socialist state-making in Tanzania. It locates this approach among new approaches to the history of the Cold War, decolonisation, and global cities. Scattered across continents, the post-colonial archive offers the potential for exploring the revolutionary dynamics which intersected in Dar es Salaam"--

Author : George Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009281607

Get Book

Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam by George Roberts Pdf

Tracing Dar es Salaam's rise and fall as an epicentre of Third World revolution, George Roberts explores the connections between the global Cold War, African liberation struggles, and Tanzania's efforts to build a socialist state. Roberts introduces a vibrant cast of politicians, guerrilla leaders, diplomats, journalists, and intellectuals whose trajectories collided in the city. In its cosmopolitan and rumour-filled hotel bars, embassy receptions, and newspaper offices, they grappled with challenges of remaking a world after empire. Yet Dar es Salaam's role on the frontline of the African revolution and its provocative stance towards global geopolitics came at considerable cost. Roberts explains how Tanzania's strident anti-imperialism ultimately drove an authoritarian turn in its socialist project and tighter control over the city's public sphere. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Lydia Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009305839

Get Book

States-in-Waiting by Lydia Walker Pdf

After the Second World War, national self-determination became a recognized international norm, yet it only extended to former colonies. Groups within postcolonial states that made alternative sovereign claims were disregarded or actively suppressed. Showcasing their contested histories, Lydia Walker offers a powerful counternarrative of global decolonization, highlighting little-known regions, marginalized individuals, and their hidden (or lost) archives. She depicts the personal connections that linked disparate nationalist struggles across the globe through advocacy networks, demonstrating that these advocates had their own agendas and allegiances, which, she argues, could undermine the autonomy of the claimants they supported. By foregrounding particular nationalist movements in South Asia and Southern Africa and their transnational advocacy networks, States-in-Waiting illuminates the un-endings of decolonization—the unfinished and improvised ways that the state-centric international system replaced empire, which left certain claims of sovereignty perpetually awaiting recognition. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Nathaniel Mathews
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520394520

Get Book

Zanzibar Was a Country by Nathaniel Mathews Pdf

Zanzibar Was a Country traces the history of a Swahili-speaking Arab diaspora from East Africa to Oman. In Oman today, whole communities in Muscat speak Swahili, have recent East African roots, and practice forms of sociality associated with the urban culture of the Swahili coast. These "Omani Zanzibaris" offer the most significant contemporary example in the Gulf, as well as in the wider Indian Ocean region, of an Afro-Arab community that maintains a living connection to Africa in a diasporic setting. While they come from all over East Africa, a large number are postrevolution exiles and emigrés from Zanzibar. Their stories provide a framework for the broader transregional entanglements of decolonization in Africa and the Arabian Gulf. Using both vernacular historiography and life histories of men and women from the community, Nathaniel Mathews argues that the traumatic memories of the Zanzibar Revolution of 1964 are important to nation-building on both sides of the Indian Ocean.

Author : Carl H. Nightingale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424523

Get Book

Earthopolis by Carl H. Nightingale Pdf

A panoramic study of our Urban Planet that takes readers on a six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world's cities.

Author : Jane Burbank,Frederick Cooper
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691250373

Get Book

Post-Imperial Possibilities by Jane Burbank,Frederick Cooper Pdf

A history of three transnational political projects designed to overcome the inequities of imperialism After the dissolution of empires, was the nation-state the only way to unite people politically, culturally, and economically? In Post-Imperial Possibilities, historians Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper examine three large-scale, transcontinental projects aimed at bringing together peoples of different regions to mitigate imperial legacies of inequality. Eurasia, Eurafrica, and Afroasia—in theory if not in practice—offered alternative routes out of empire. The theory of Eurasianism was developed after the collapse of imperial Russia by exiled intellectuals alienated by both Western imperialism and communism. Eurafrica began as a design for collaborative European exploitation of Africa but was transformed in the 1940s and 1950s into a project to include France’s African territories in plans for European integration. The Afroasian movement wanted to replace the vertical relationship of colonizer and colonized with a horizontal relationship among former colonial territories that could challenge both the communist and capitalist worlds. Both Eurafrica and Afroasia floundered, victims of old and new vested interests. But Eurasia revived in the 1990s, when Russian intellectuals turned the theory’s attack on Western hegemony into a recipe for the restoration of Russian imperial power. While both the system of purportedly sovereign states and the concentrated might of large economic and political institutions continue to frustrate projects to overcome inequities in welfare and power, Burbank and Cooper’s study of political imagination explores wide-ranging concepts of social affiliation and obligation that emerged after empire and the reasons for their unlike destinies.

Author : Frank Gerits
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501767937

Get Book

The Ideological Scramble for Africa by Frank Gerits Pdf

In The Ideological Scramble for Africa, Frank Gerits examines how African leaders in the 1950s and 1960s crafted an anticolonial modernization project. Rather than choose Cold War sides between East and West, anticolonial nationalists worked to reverse the psychological and cultural destruction of colonialism. Kwame Nkrumah's African Union was envisioned as a federation of liberation to challenge the extant imperial forces: the US empire of liberty, the Soviet empire of equality, and the European empires of exploitation. In the 1950s, the goal of proving the potency of a pan-African ideology shaped the agenda of the Bandung Conference and Ghana's support for African liberation, while also determining what was at stake in the Congo crisis and in the fight against white minority rule in southern and eastern Africa. In the 1960s, the attempt to remake African psychology was abandoned, and socioeconomic development came into focus. Anticolonial nationalists did not simply resist or utilize imperial and Cold War pressures but drew strength from the example of the Haitian Revolution of 1791, in which Toussaint Louverture demanded the universal application of Europe's Enlightenment values. The liberationists of the postwar period wanted to redesign society in the image of the revolution that had created them. The Ideological Scramble for Africa demonstrates that the Cold War struggle between capitalism and Communism was only one of two ideological struggles that picked up speed after 1945; the battle between liberation and imperialism proved to be more enduring.

Author : Ismay Milford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009276993

Get Book

African Activists in a Decolonising World by Ismay Milford Pdf

As wars of liberation in Africa and Asia shook the post-war world, a cohort of activists from East and Central Africa, specifically the region encompassing present-day Malawi, Zambia, Uganda and mainland Tanzania, asked what role they could play in the global anticolonial landscape. Through the perspective of these activists, Ismay Milford presents a social and intellectual history of decolonisation and anticolonialism in the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on multi-archival research, she brings together their trajectories for the first time, reconstructing the anticolonial culture that underpinned their journeys to Delhi, Cairo, London, Accra and beyond. Forming committees and publishing pamphlets, these activists worked with pan-African and Afro-Asian solidarity projects, Cold War student internationals, spiritual internationalists and diverse pressure groups. Milford argues that a focus on their everyday labour and knowledge production highlights certain limits of transnational and international activism, opening up a critical - albeit less heroic - perspective on the global history of anticolonial work and thought.

Author : Priya Lal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107104525

Get Book

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.

Author : Walter Rodney
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786635310

Get Book

The Russian Revolution by Walter Rodney Pdf

Preface by Jesse Benjamin and the Walter Rodney Foundation Introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley Afterword by Vijay Prashad In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading revolutionary thinkers of the Black Sixties. He became a leading force of dissent throughout the Caribbean and a lightning rod of controversy. The 1968 Rodney Riots erupted in Jamaica when he was prevented from returning to his teaching post at the University of the West Indies. In 1980, Rodney was assassinated in Guyana, reportedly at the behest of the government. In the mid-'70s, Rodney taught a course on the Russian Revolution at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. A Pan-Africanist and Marxist, Rodney sought to make sense of the reverberations of the October Revolution in a decolonising world marked by Third World revolutionary movements. He intended to publish a book based on his research and teaching. Now historians Jesse Benjamin, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Vijay Prashad have edited Rodney's polished chapters and unfinished lecture notes, presenting the book that Rodney had hoped to publish in his lifetime. 1917 is a signal event in radical publishing, and will inaugurate Verso's standard edition of Walter Rodney's works.

Author : Helen-Louise Hunter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313361968

Get Book

Zanzibar by Helen-Louise Hunter Pdf

In the late 1950s, Communists decided that Zanzibar offered them a particular favorable opportunity for expanding their influence.

Author : Jeannette Hartmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Arusha Declaration
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070081372

Get Book

Re-thinking the Arusha Declaration by Jeannette Hartmann Pdf

Author : Ronald Aminzade
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107436053

Get Book

Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Postcolonial Africa by Ronald Aminzade Pdf

Nationalism has generated violence, bloodshed, and genocide, as well as patriotic sentiments that encourage people to help fellow citizens and place public responsibilities above personal interests. This study explores the contradictory character of African nationalism as it unfolded over decades of Tanzanian history in conflicts over public policies concerning the rights of citizens, foreigners, and the nation's Asian racial minority. These policy debates reflected a history of racial oppression and foreign domination and were shaped by a quest for economic development, racial justice, and national self-reliance.

Author : Mohamed Said
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Tanzania
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022013903

Get Book

The Life and Times of Abdulwahid Sykes (1924-1968) by Mohamed Said Pdf

Author : Jonathan Fisher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108494274

Get Book

East Africa after Liberation by Jonathan Fisher Pdf

A novel, far-reaching analysis of contemporary history and politics in East Africa, focusing on the crisis in the region's postcolonial political order.