History is preserved by individuals. Ernest M. Kongola, a retired educator in living in Dodoma, Tanzania, has devoted much of the last twenty years to preserving the history of his people, the Gogo. He has produced seven volumes of clan histories, biographies, accounts of important events, and descriptions of customs and traditions. Maddox demonstrates how the past is constructed by critical actors like Ernest Kongola as part of an ongoing process of constructing the present.
Kongola participates in the construction and maintenance of a truly post-colonial social order. His work as a...
History is preserved by individuals. Ernest M. Kongola, a retired educator in living in Dodoma, Tanzania, has devoted much of the last twenty years...
Gregory H. Maddox Isaria N. Kimambo James L. Giblin
Farming and pastoral societies inhabit ever-changing environments. This relationship between environment and rural culture, politics and economy in Tanzania is the subject of this volume which will be valuable in reopening debates on Tanzanian history. In his conclusion, Isaria N. Kimambo, a founding father of Tanzanian history, reflects on the efforts of successive historians to strike a balance between external causes of change and local initiative in their interpretations of Tanzanian history. He shows that nationalist and Marxist historians of Tanzanian history, understandably...
Farming and pastoral societies inhabit ever-changing environments. This relationship between environment and rural culture, politics and economy in Ta...
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."
The double-sided nature of African nationalism its capacity to inspire expressions of unity, and its tendency to narrow political debate are explored ...
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."
The double-sided nature of African nationalism its capacity to inspire expressions of unity, and its tendency to narrow political debate are explored ...
A reconstruction of the history and customs of the Gogo people of Africa, based in part on oral histories, tribal legends and myths. This work was first published in Swahili in 1954 and was sponsored by the British Colonial government in an attempt to promote "tribal" cohesion.
A reconstruction of the history and customs of the Gogo people of Africa, based in part on oral histories, tribal legends and myths. This work was fir...
A reconstruction of the history and customs of the Gogo people of Africa, based in part on oral histories, tribal legends and myths. This work was first published in Swahili in 1954 and was sponsored by the British Colonial government in an attempt to promote "tribal" cohesion.
A reconstruction of the history and customs of the Gogo people of Africa, based in part on oral histories, tribal legends and myths. This work was fir...
A scholarly reference work that will also appeal to the general reader, "Sub-Saharan Africa" sets the story of the African environment within the context of geological time and shows how the continent's often harsh conditions prompted humans to develop unique skills in agriculture, animal husbandry, and environmental management. Part of ABC-CLIO's Nature and Human Societies series, this book enables readers to better grasp the extent of humanity's effect on our world.
Of particular interest are the book's sections dealing with the impact of the Biafran famine of the 1960s, the Sahelian...
A scholarly reference work that will also appeal to the general reader, "Sub-Saharan Africa" sets the story of the African environment within the c...
The Demographics of Empire is a collection of essays examining the multifaceted nature of the colonial science of demography in the last two centuries. The contributing scholars of Africa and the British and French empires focus on three questions: How have historians, demographers, and other social scientists understood colonial populations? What were the demographic realities of African societies and how did they affect colonial systems of power? Finally, how did demographic theories developed in Europe shape policies and administrative structures in the colonies? The essays...
The Demographics of Empire is a collection of essays examining the multifaceted nature of the colonial science of demography in the last t...
The Demographics of Empire is a collection of essays examining the multifaceted nature of the colonial science of demography in the last two centuries. The contributing scholars of Africa and the British and French empires focus on three questions: How have historians, demographers, and other social scientists understood colonial populations? What were the demographic realities of African societies and how did they affect colonial systems of power? Finally, how did demographic theories developed in Europe shape policies and administrative structures in the colonies? The essays...
The Demographics of Empire is a collection of essays examining the multifaceted nature of the colonial science of demography in the last t...
