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 obliterated the great wealth of political discourses and identities which exist within the nation.
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All essays leave us with a stimulating way of thinking about nationalism that avoids polarizing representations and binary conceptions of social reality, but highlights on the contrary complex procedures of negotiations of identity and political authority. - Marie-Aoud Fouere in ANALYSES ET COMPTES RENDUS ...A celebration of nationalism and the nation state is not to be found here, as one might have expected a generation ago. Rather, there is a sense of discomfort that Tanzanian nationalism failed to create the unity and freedom promised at independence. The title of the book might be paraphrased as a search for a usable past ... in the ongoing search for a usable past, the contributions here reveal the limitations of state hegemony and the richness of local bases of knowledge in giving meaning to the past. - Thaddeus Sunseri in AFRICAN HISTORY
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Gregory H. Maddox is an associate professor of history at Texas Southern University. James L. Giblin is an associate professor of history at the University of Iowa.
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African nationalism has experienced hard going in recent scholarship. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
taarab performance, tripartite voting, ngoma performance, local historical knowledge, vanguard generation, normative talk, unofficial majority, cultural officers, youth mobilization, cultural troupe, clan hierarchy, sisal plantations, constitutional advance, racial parity, indirect rule, patrilineal clans, seditious words, state aesthetic, organizing secretary, tribal past Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
East Africa, Tanganyika Standard, Colonial Office, New York, Gorell Barnes, Julius Nyerere, Arab Association, Secretary of State, World War, Steven Feierman, James Currey, South Rukwa, British Resident, Sultan of Zanzibar, Cambridge University Press, University of Dar, Mahenge District, Nationalist Zanzibar, Kingalu Elders, Mwana Makuka, Zanzibari Revolution, Zuberi Mtemvu, Ali Sultan Issa, Princeton University Press, Annual Report New!
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taarab performance, tripartite voting, ngoma performance, local historical knowledge, vanguard generation, normative talk, unofficial majority, cultural officers, youth mobilization, cultural troupe, clan hierarchy, sisal plantations, constitutional advance, racial parity, indirect rule, patrilineal clans, seditious words, state aesthetic, organizing secretary, tribal past Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
East Africa, Tanganyika Standard, Colonial Office, New York, Gorell Barnes, Julius Nyerere, Arab Association, Secretary of State, World War, Steven Feierman, James Currey, South Rukwa, British Resident, Sultan of Zanzibar, Cambridge University Press, University of Dar, Mahenge District, Nationalist Zanzibar, Kingalu Elders, Mwana Makuka, Zanzibari Revolution, Zuberi Mtemvu, Ali Sultan Issa, Princeton University Press, Annual Report New!
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- African History: From Earliest Times to Independence by Philip Curtin on 7 pages
- Peasant Intellectuals: Anthropology and History in Tanzania by Steven M. Feierman on 6 pages
- Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University) by James C. Scott on 4 pages
- Ubena of the Rivers by Arthur T. Culwick on 4 pages
- The Invention of Tradition (Canto) by Eric Hobsbawm on 4 pages
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