Life in Tanzania Today and Since the Sixties
Life in Tanzania Today and Since the Sixties

Author: John Ndembwike

Publisher: Continental Press

Published: 2010-05

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 998793224X

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This work is about life in Tanzania today. It's also a general survey of life in Tanzania since the sixties. Subjects covered include major political and socioeconomic changes which have taken place in the country since independence. The author also looks at life under ujamaa - the African version of socialism - in the seventies and eighties when the government tried to transform Tanzania into a socialist nation; life under capitalism after socialism was abandoned in the early 1990s; how multiparty democracy has worked and how it has not worked in Tanzania after the country abandoned one-party rule in 1992; the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar and the problems and challenges it faces and has faced since it was formed in 1964, and other subjects. The book is also a general introduction to Tanzania - its geography and its people. The author has looked at all the administrative regions or provinces and the ethnic groups in every region. Tanzania has one of the largest numbers of ethnic groups in Africa. The author also explains why Tanzania's demographic composition is unique on the continent. The work is intended for members of the general public including those who are going to Tanzania for the first time.

Every Hill a Burial Place
Every Hill a Burial Place

Author: Peter H. Reid

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0813180015

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On March 28, 1966, Peace Corps personnel in Tanzania received word that volunteer Peppy Kinsey had fallen to her death while rock climbing during a picnic. Local authorities arrested Kinsey's husband, Bill, and charged him with murder as witnesses came forward claiming to have seen the pair engaged in a struggle. The incident had the potential to be disastrous for both the Peace Corps and the newly independent nation of Tanzania. Because of the high stakes surrounding the trial, questions remain as to whether there was more behind the final "not guilty" verdict than was apparent on the surface. Peter H. Reid, who served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania at the time of the Kinsey murder trial, draws on his considerable legal experience to expose inconsistencies and biases in the case. He carefully scrutinizes the evidence and the investigation records, providing insight into the motives and actions of both the Peace Corps representatives and the Tanzanian government officials involved. Reid does not attempt to prove the verdict wrong but examines the events of Kinsey's death, her husband's trial, and the aftermath through a variety of cultural and political perspectives. Meticulously researched and replete with intricate detail, this compelling account sheds new light on a notable yet overlooked international incident involving non-state actors in the Cold War era.

Tanzania Under Mwalimu Nyerere
Tanzania Under Mwalimu Nyerere

Author: Godfrey Mwakikagile

Publisher: New Africa Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0980253497

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Nyerere's economic policies, his successes and failures in pursuit of economic development under socialism, are some of the subjects addressed by the author 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 from one-party rule to multiparty democracy, and from socialism to capitalism since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. He also takes a critical look at globalization and the negative impact of structural adjustment programmes in Tanzania and Africa as a whole. The work is also a study of Tanzania's history since the advent of colonial rule and of the struggle for independence in one of Africa's largest countries.

My Life as an African
My Life as an African

Author: Godfrey Mwakikagile

Publisher: New Africa Press

Published: 2009-08-08

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 144861256X

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This is an autobiographical work covering a wide range of subjects including a number of major events relevant to Africa and the African diaspora.

Language, Globalization and the Making of a Tanzanian Beauty Queen
Language, Globalization and the Making of a Tanzanian Beauty Queen

Author: Sabrina Billings

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2013-11-29

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1783090774

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Through micro-analysis of language use, this book chronicles young women's pathways to becoming a Tanzanian beauty queen, offering an original perspective on the intersection of language with globalization, nationalism, and inequality in urban East Africa. This compelling linguistic ethnography considers the real-life effects, both on- and off-stage, of language policy, education, and gender dynamics for the women competing in the pageants. While highlighting many contestants' struggles for escape from poverty and patriarchy, the book also emphasizes their creative strategies – linguistic and otherwise – for bettering their lives and shows how people living in a global economic periphery take part in, and sometimes feel left out of, the wider world.

Living with Africa
Living with Africa

Author: Jan Vansina

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780299143244

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In 1952, a young Belgian scholar of European medieval history traveled to the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) to live in a remote Kuba village. Armed with a smattering of training in African cultures and language, Jan Vansina was sent to do fieldwork for a Belgian cultural agency. As it turned out, he would help found the field of African history, with a handful of other European and African scholars. "I'm not an ethnologist, I'm a historian!" Vansina was to repeat again and again to those who assumed that people without written texts have no history. His discovery that he could analyze Kuba oral tradition using the same methods he had learned for interpreting medieval dirges was a historiographical breakthrough, and his first book, Oral Tradition as History, is considered the seminal work that gave the study of precolonial African history both the scholarly justification and the self-confidence it had been lacking. Living with Africa is a compelling memoir of Vansina's life and career on three continents, interwoven with the story of African history as a scholarly specialty. In the background of his narrative are the collapse of colonialism in Africa and the emergence of newly independent nations; in the foreground are the first conferences on African history, the founding of journals and departments, and the efforts of Africans to establish a history curriculum for the schools in their new nations.

Africa and the West
Africa and the West

Author: Godfrey Mwakikagile

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781560728405

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Besides her natural beauty, the scenery and the climate, and her abundant wildlife and natural resources, Africa is probably best known as the homeland of hundreds of millions of people who live in abject poverty. Millions are wracked by disease and blinded by ignorance. And just as many go hungry every day. But there is something else which also distinguishes Africa: lack of unity among her people. That is one of the main reasons why they were conquered by foreigners, and why Africa is still weak and poor today. There is no other continent which is endowed with so much in terms of natural resources. But there is also no other continent where it has been so easy for foreigners to take what does not belong to them. This book began as a self-examination of the African personality in an attempt to understand Africa's place in the world, especially in relation to the West.

The Live Bird Trade in Tanzania
The Live Bird Trade in Tanzania

Author: R. K. Tibanyenda

Publisher: IUCN

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9782831703657

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The practice of keeping live birds in captivity has been widespread throughout this century and has increased considerably as the 20th century comes to a close. In the last decade or so, the increased trade in live birds from Tanzania has given rise to a number of concerns regarding the sustainability of the trade, its effects on bird numbers, and illegal trafficking. As part of its efforts to palliate the lack of legislation and planning in this domain and to evaluate the effects of this trade, in 1990 the Tanzanian government initiated the Planning and Assessment for Wildlife Management (PAWM) project. As part of this project, a workshop on the live bird trade in Tanzania was organized in Dar Es Salaam in December 1991 and gave rise to a series of initiatives. This publication provides a record of these initiatives and of the PAWN's efforts to arrive at and implement them. It also provides a record of the papers presented during the workshop and the recommendations that emerged therefrom.

African Migrations
African Migrations

Author: Abdoulaye Kane

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0253003083

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Spurred by major changes in the world economy and in local ecology, the contemporary migration of Africans, both within the continent and to various destinations in Europe and North America, has seriously affected thousands of lives and livelihoods. The contributors to this volume, reflecting a variety of disciplinary perspectives, examine the causes and consequences of this new migration. The essays cover topics such as rural-urban migration into African cities, transnational migration, and the experience of immigrants abroad, as well as the issues surrounding migrant identity and how Africans re-create community and strive to maintain ethnic, gender, national, and religious ties to their former homes.