In Search of a Nation — (2005)

Histories of Authority & Dissidence in Tanzania

Edited by James L. Giblin and Gregory H. Maddox

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.

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$55 (hardcover)
ISBN: 0-8214-1670-7
ISBN 13: 978-0-8214-1670-9

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ISBN: 0-8214-1671-5
ISBN 13: 978-0-8214-1671-6

320 pages
5 1/2 x 8 1/2

Copublished with James Currey, Oxford.


James L. Giblin is an associate professor of history at the University of Iowa.

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Gregory H. Maddox is an associate professor of history at Texas Southern University.

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