'Hunter's adeptness at moving between the specificity of such particular cases and the broad discussion of abstract ideas on a global scale is facilitated by her lucid writing and engagement with an impressively wide body of comparative scholarly literature. These features help make this book at once accessible to non-specialists and meaningful to Africanists.' Priya Lal, African Studies Review
Introduction; 1. Concepts of progress in mid-twentieth-century Tanzania; 2. Transnational languages of democracy after 1945; 3. Representation, imperial citizenship and the political subject in late colonial Tanganyika; 4. Patriotic citizenship and the case of the Kilimanjaro Chagga Citizens Union; 5. Freedom in translation; 6. Languages of democracy in Kilimanjaro and the fall of Marealle; 7. One party democracy: citizenship and political society in the post-colonial state; 8. Ujamaa and the Arusha Declaration; Conclusion.