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Taifa: Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania
Ohio University Press, 2012 eISBN: 978-0-8214-4417-7 | Paper: 978-0-8214-2001-0 Library of Congress Classification DT449.D3B74 2012 Dewey Decimal Classification 967.8232
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Winner of the 2013 Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize for best book on East African Studies (sponsored by the African Studies Association) Taifa is a story of African intellectual agency, but it is also an account of how nation and race emerged out of the legal, social, and economic histories in one major city, Dar es Salaam. Nation and race—both translatable as taifa in Swahili—were not simply universal ideas brought to Africa by European colonizers, as previous studies assume. They were instead categories crafted by local African thinkers to make sense of deep inequalities, particularly those between local Africans and Indian immigrants. Taifa shows how nation and race became the key political categories to guide colonial and postcolonial life in this African city. See other books on: Colonialism & Post-Colonialism | East | Ethnicity | Tanzania | Urbanization See other titles from Ohio University Press |
Nearby on shelf for History of Africa / Eastern Africa / Tanzania. Tanganyika. German East Africa:
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