Tanzania

Author : Kefa M. Otiso
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Customs of Tanzania written by Kefa M. Otiso and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fascinating, up-to-date overview of the social, cultural, economic, and political landscapes of Tanzania. In Culture and Customs of Tanzania, author Kefa M. Otiso presents an approachable basic overview of the country's key characteristics, covering topics such as Tanzania's land, peoples, languages, education system, resources, occupations, economy, government, and history. This recent addition to Greenwood's Culture and Customs of Africa series also contains chapters that portray the culture and social customs of Tanzania, such as the country's religion and worldview; literature, film, and media; art, architecture, and housing; cuisine and traditional dress; gender roles, marriage, family structures, and lifestyle; and music, dance, and drama.

Author : Jamie Monson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253002818
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa's Freedom Railway written by Jamie Monson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The TAZARA (Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority), or Freedom Railway, from Dar es Salaam on the Tanzanian coast to the Copperbelt region of Zambia, was instrumental in fostering one of the most sweeping development transitions in postcolonial Africa. Built during the height of the Cold War, the railway was intended to redirect the mineral wealth of the interior away from routes through South Africa and Rhodesia. Rebuffed by Western aid agencies, newly independent Tanzania and Zambia accepted help from China to construct what would become one of Africa's most vital transportation corridors. The book follows the railroad from design and construction to its daily use as a vital means for moving villagers and goods. It tells a story of how transnational interests contributed to environmental change, population movements, and the rise of local and regional enterprise.

Author : Philip Briggs
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781841622927
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Northern Tanzania written by Philip Briggs and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2009 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this tightly focused guide includes updated information on the best accommodation in every price bracket, and the best of the safaris. There's specific coverage of the wildlife and natural history of the region, making it the indispensable companion to a safari in northern Tanzania's renowned national parks.

Author : Andrew Coulson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199679967
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tanzania written by Andrew Coulson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an account of the political economy of Tanzania, from pre-colonial times to the present. It shows the strengths and weaknesses of Julius Nyerere, the leader who brought the country to Independence in 1961. A new introductory chapter sets the book in context and discusses current issues such as natural resources.

Author : Barbara A. Margolies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780590428477
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rehema's Journey written by Barbara A. Margolies and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rehema, a nine-year-old girl who lives in the mountains of Tanzania, accompanies her father to Arusha City and visits the Ngorongoro Crater.

Author : Kimambo, Isaria N.
Publisher : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers
ISBN 13 : 998775399X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New History of Tanzania written by Kimambo, Isaria N. and published by Mkuki na Nyota Publishers. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tanzania, the land and the people have been subject of a great deal of historical research, but there remains no readily accessible and concise history of the country. The aim of this volume is to fill that void. A New History of Tanzania takes its name from a lecture series introduced at the University of Dar es Salaam by Professor Isaria Kimambo in 2002. Prior to that, a book titled, A History of Tanzania, had been published in 1969 by East African Publishing House in Nairobi for the Tanzania Historical Association. That book is currently out of print and this is not a reprint. In this book, Prof. Kimambo has been joined by two other colleagues; Prof. Gregory H. Maddox of Texas Southern University, Houston (USA) and Salvatory S. Nyanto, a Tanzanian, Lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam, and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Iowa (USA); together they have produced an outline history of Tanzania that covers all important aspects from antiquity to the present that is different from and richer than its predecessor. Sources from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, biology, genetics and oral tradition have been used to produce this excellent book. A New History of Tanzania is a timely contribution to academic requirements for teaching and learning Tanzania’s history. It is also a possible exemplar to the writing of other countries’ histories, departing as it does, from the traditional historiography that is influenced by colonial and postcolonial apologists of nefarious external influences on Africa’s history. It will also interest other Tanzanians and visitors to Tanzania who are interested in understanding the country from when it was a territory with more than one hundred and twenty ethnic groups, to a nation with an unmistakable identity as it marches forward.

Author : Monique A. Bedasse
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469633604
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jah Kingdom written by Monique A. Bedasse and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence. While the existing studies of the Rastafarian movement have primarily focused on its cultural expression through reggae music, art, and iconography, Monique A. Bedasse argues that repatriation to Africa represents the most important vehicle of Rastafari's international growth. Shifting the scholarship on repatriation from Ethiopia to Tanzania, Bedasse foregrounds Rastafari's enduring connection to black radical politics and establishes Tanzania as a critical site to explore gender, religion, race, citizenship, socialism, and nation. Beyond her engagement with how the Rastafarian idea of Africa translated into a lived reality, she demonstrates how Tanzanian state and nonstate actors not only validated the Rastafarian idea of diaspora but were also crucial to defining the parameters of Pan-Africanism. Based on previously undiscovered oral and written sources from Tanzania, Jamaica, England, the United States, and Trinidad, Bedasse uncovers a vast and varied transnational network--including Julius Nyerere, Michael Manley, and C. L. R James--revealing Rastafari's entrenchment in the making of Pan-Africanism in the postindependence period.

Author : Dominik Mattes
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805393839
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities written by Dominik Mattes and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Tanga, a city on the Tanzanian Swahili coast, Dominik Mattes examines the implementation of antiretroviral HIV-treatment (ART) in the area, exploring the manifold infrastructural and social fragilities of treatment provision in public HIV clinics as well as patients’ multi-layered struggles of coming to terms with ART in their everyday lives. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the book shows that, notwithstanding the massive rollout of ART, providing treatment and living a life with HIV in settings like Tanga continue to entail social, economic, and moral challenges and long-term uncertainties, which contradict the global rhetoric of the “normalization of HIV”.

Author : James R. Brennan
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821444174
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taifa written by James R. Brennan and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Using deeply researched archival and oral evidence, Taifa transforms our understanding of urban history and shows how concerns about access to credit and housing became intertwined with changing conceptions of nation and nationhood. Taifa gives equal attention to both Indians and Africans; in doing so, it demonstrates the significance of political and economic connections between coastal East Africa and India during the era of British colonialism, and illustrates how the project of racial nationalism largely severed these connections by the 1970s.

Author : Mary Fitzpatrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786575623
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tanzania written by Mary Fitzpatrick and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wildlife, beaches, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar Archipelago--Tanzania has these and more wrapped up in one adventurous, welcoming package. Now fully updated, the #1 bestselling guide to Tanzania contains relevant information on what to see and do, as well as full-color images and maps.maps.