In Search of a Nation - Histories of Authority and Dissidence in Tanzania

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-85255-487-6
Verlag: James Currey

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 442 g

Reihe: Eastern African Studies

Examines the contradictions of nationalism, focusing on the experience of Tanzania.

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. The narrative of the nation of Tanzania, which was created by the anti-colonial 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.

North America: Ohio U Press; Tanzania: Kapsel

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maddox, Gregory H.

Giblin, James L.

Maddox, Gregory

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Maddox, Gregory
Gregory H. Maddox is a professor of history at Texas Southern University and author of Sub-Saharan Africa: An Environmental History and co-editor of In Search of a Nation: Histories of Authority and Dissidence in Tanzania and Custodians of the Land: Ecology and Culture in the History of Tanzania.