Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
This volume is concerned with the cultural politics of powerwith histories of how local people interpreted, criticized, and produced political legitimacy. In this volume, more than a dozen established and emerging scholars explore these themes in various Tanzanian historical contexts. The high esteem in which [Isario N.] Kimambo is held is reflected in the quality of the chapters and in the impressive list of contributors, including many of the most influential and active historians of Africa.”
African Studies Review
Review
Taken together, the essays that comprise this collection provide a powerful overview of the changing ways in which Tanzanians understood and negotiated the nation and the institutions of state power in the 19th and 20th centuries.”
Journal of Asian and African Studies
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
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.