History of Tanzania: Top 10 Books

Peasant Intellectuals: Anthropology and History in Tanzania by Steven M. Feierman

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Scholars who study peasant society now realize that peasants are not passive, but quite capable of acting in their own interests. Debate has continued, though, on whether coherent political ideas emerge within peasant society, or whether peasants act in a world where political issues are defined by elites. Based on ethnographic research begun in 1966 that includes interviews with hundreds of people from all levels of Tanzanian society, "Peasant Intellectuals" aims to alter the perspective from w...0 points

Islam and Politics in East Africa: The Sufi Order in Tanzania by August H. Nimtz Jr.

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Islam and Politics in East Africa was first published in 1980. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Focusing on the interplay of religion, society, and politics, August Nimtz examines the role of sufi tariqas (brotherhoods) in Tanzania, where he observed an African Muslim society at first hand. Nimtz opens this book with a historical account of...0 points

Africa's Freedom Railway: How a Chinese Development Project Changed Lives and Livelihoods in Tanzania by Jamie Monson

The TAZARA (Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority), or more...0 points

The TAZARA (Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority), or Freedom Railway, from Dar es Salaam on the Tanzanian coast to the Copperbelt region of Zambia was instrumental in fostering one of the most sweeping development transitions in post-colonial Africa. Built during the height of the Cold War, the railway was intended to redirect the mineral wealth of the interior away from routes through South Africa and Rhodesia. Rebuffed by Western aid agencies, newly independent Tanzania and Zambia accepted help from...0 points

Tanzania: The Land and Its People by John Ndembwike

This is a general study of Tanzania, the land and more...0 points

This is a general study of Tanzania, the land and its people and history, and a look at contemporary life in the largest country in East Africa and one of the largest on the continent. It is also a general survery of the country's natural resources, crops and minerals, and economic potential. The book also includes some details on the East African Community and the proposed East Africa federation of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania which is supposed to be formed in 2013. Includes maps and photos.0 points

In Search of a Nation: Histories of Authority & Dissidence in Tanzania (Eastern African Studies)

The double-sided nature of African nationalism-its more...0 points

The double-sided nature of African nationalism-its capacity to inspire expressions of unity, and its tendency to narrow political debate-are explored by sixteen historians, focusing on the experience of Tanzania. The narrative of the nation of Tanzania, which was created by the anticolonial nationalist movement, expanded by the Union after the Zanzibar Revolution, and fused by the ideology of Ujamaa by Julius Nyerere, has shaped Tanzanian political discourse for decades, but has not ob...0 points

Wielding the Ax: State Forestry and Social Conflict in Tanzania, 1820-2000 (Ecology & History) by Thaddeus Sunseri

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Forests have been at the fault lines of contact between African peasant communities in the Tanzanian coastal hinterland and outsiders for almost two centuries. In recent decades, a global call for biodiversity preservation has been the main challenge to Tanzanians and their forests. Thaddeus Sunseri uses the lens of forest history to explore some of the most profound transformations in Tanzania from the nineteenth century to the present. He explores anticolonial rebellions, the world wars, the depression,...0 points

Sukuma Labor Songs from Western Tanzania: "We Never Sleep, We Dream of Farming" (African Sources for African History) by Frank Gunderson

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Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania by Liisa H. Malkki

In this study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven more...0 points

In this study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile in Tanzania after their 1972 insurrection against the dominant Tutsi was brutally quashed, Liisa Malkki shows how experiences of dispossession and violence are remembered and turned into narratives, and how this process helps to construct identities such as "Hutu" and "Tutsi."Through extensive fieldwork in two refugee communities, Malkki finds that the refugees' current circumstances significantly influence these constructions. Those...0 points

Tanzania under Mwalimu Nyerere: Reflections on an African Statesman by Godfrey Mwakikagile

Nyerere's economic policies, his successes and failures more...0 points

Nyerere's economic policies, his successes and failures in pursuit of economic development under socialism, are some of the subjects addressed by Godfrey Mwakikagile in this book. A Tanzanian himself, he also looks at how life was under Nyerere since the sixties. The work is also a critical examination of the political situation in Tanzania since independence when the country was known as Tanganyika before uniting with Zanzibar. The author also looks at the transition that has taken place in Tanzania...0 points

Imagining Serengeti: A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Time to the Present (New African Histories) by Jan Bender Shetler

Long before the creation of the Serengeti National more...0 points

Long before the creation of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, the people of the western Serengeti had established settlements and interacted with the environment in ways that created a landscape we now misconstrue as natural. Western Serengeti peoples imagine the environment not as a pristine wilderness, but as a differentiated social landscape that embodies their history and identity. Conservationist literature has ignored these now-displaced peoples and relegated them to the margins of modern...0 points