Salvatory S Nyanto
Biographic Data
| ID | 4459854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Salvatory S Nyanto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Salvatory S |
| FAMILY NAME | Nyanto |
| SIGNATURE | NYANTO S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dar es Salaam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1457-8893 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Muscat in Rural Tanzania: Omani Arabs, Identity, and Citizenship in Post-Slavery Tanzania, 1920s–1960s
Studies on post-slavery in East Africa often concentrate on the aftermath of slavery for the formerly enslaved. By contrast, former owners’ experiences after abolition and during emancipation are rarely explored. This article examines the trajectories of Omani Arabs in western Tanzania during and after the end of slavery, ca. 1910 to the late twentieth century. Having settled and built slavelabour plantations along the central caravan route in th…
Supportive, Destructive, or Indifferent? Expanding Global Markets and the End of Slavery in Continental East Africa in the Twentieth Century
Nineteenth-century East Africa experienced a first and last, rather than second, efflorescence of slavery. Legal abolition occurred late, between 1897 and 1922. Nevertheless, unlike in many other formerly slave-owning societies, most slave descendants here do not form distinctive, marginalized communities today. Still, they hesitate to acknowledge slave ancestry. This paper investigates the dynamics behind this ambivalent outcome. Comparing two r…
Women’s Livelihood and Status Struggles in Tabora after the End of Slavery, 1920s–60
This paper examines the life trajectories, social contexts and living conditions of women of uncertain status in post-slavery, colonial-era Tabora, with a focus on those involved in the production and consumption of beer. It thereby searches insights into the aftermath of slavery in this region, particularly for women. It reflects on the persistent social unease surrounding slavery and its aftermath, and on the way it shapes and limits sources, a…
Kijiji cha Watoro: Resistance, Identity, and Social Life of Nyamwezi Runaway Slaves along the Central Caravan Route in Tanzania
Women’s Special Seats in Tanzania: Entanglements, Dilemmas, and the Struggle for Political Representation
The government resorted to affirmative action of women special seats as a ‘temporary gap filling’ strategy in 1985. However, the policy is still being implemented to date as an approach for increasing women representation, leading to entanglements, dilemmas and struggles. In this article, we use qualitative data and experiences of women from both the ruling party CCM and leading opposition party CHADEMA to examine the impact of women’s special se…
In Pursuit of Freedom: Oaths, Slave Agency, and the Abolition of Slavery in Western Tanzania, 1905–1930
This article examines ways in which slaves and missionaries used public declarations before witnesses to carve out a distinctive space of legal proceedings in pursuit of emancipation in western Tanzania. This way of pursuing emancipation shows slaves deploying their intellectual creativity and cultural knowledge to shape the German and British colonial legal systems. Interviews provide evidence that these public declarations drew on long-standing…
Researching the Aftermath of Slavery in Mainland East Africa: Methodological, Ethical, and Practical Challenges
This article examines ethical, practical, and methodological challenges in researching the aftermath of slavery in continental East Africa away from the coastal plantation belt. Interest in post-slavery there is recent and inspired by the apparent contrast with West Africa, where the issue is much more salient. The article explains this silence by highlighting politically-motivated avoidance of the issue in colonial sources and the preference of …
Decolonizing Curriculum: Slavery, Empire, and History Teaching in Tanzania, 1961—2022
In this paper the author examines the teaching of the history of slavery and empire in schools and universities in Tanzania. The study centers on the history curriculum and university's history course syllabi to show the themes of slavery and empire have been taught in Tanzania over the past five decades of the development of historical knowledge in Tanzania. The author attempts to show that the dominance of nationalist and materialist traditions…
Ujamaa, Small Christian Communities, and Moral Reform in Western Tanzania, 1960s–1990
This article examines the efforts of Small Christian Communities (in Kiswahili, Jumuiya Ndogo Ndogo za Kikristo) to carve out a separate space of moral reform and regulation beyond the spheres of ujamaa and state authority between the 1960s and 1990. These communities served as platforms for expressing ideas and addressing social concerns arising from members. They also controlled converts' demeanors and adjudicated issues related to moral laxity…
Slave emancipation, Christian communities, and dissent in western Tanzania, 1878-1960
This dissertation explores the ways marginalized slaves and orphans came together to create new mission communities in western Tanzania. It shows that slave emancipation was a complex process that involved flight to the missions, public declarations, and certification of emancipation. Former slaves joined missions and their descendants became the first-generation Christians, and some worked as teachers, pastors and catechists. The dissertation ce…
A New History of Tanzania
Waliletwa na Kengele ya Kanisa!”: Discourses of Slave Emancipation and Conversion at Ndala Catholic Mission in Western Tanzania, 1896-1913
Religious discourse has recently attracted attention of anthropologists in Tanzania looking at Christian-Muslim relations and Islamic revivalism within specific social and political contexts. This paper contributes to the existing knowledge of religious discourse in Tanzania by looking at the discourses of slave emancipation and conversion at Ndala within the historical context, that is, from 1896 to 1913. The paper relies on the missionary repor…
Researching the Aftermath of Slavery in Mainland East Africa: Methodological, Ethical, and Practical Challenges
This article examines ethical, practical, and methodological challenges in researching the aftermath of slavery in continental East Africa away from the coastal plantation belt. Interest in post-slavery there is recent and inspired by the apparent contrast with West Africa, where the issue is much more salient. The article explains this silence by highlighting politically-motivated avoidance of the issue in colonial sources and the preference of …
A New History of Tanzania
Waliletwa na Kengele ya Kanisa!”: Discourses of Slave Emancipation and Conversion at Ndala Catholic Mission in Western Tanzania, 1896-1913
Religious discourse has recently attracted attention of anthropologists in Tanzania looking at Christian-Muslim relations and Islamic revivalism within specific social and political contexts. This paper contributes to the existing knowledge of religious discourse in Tanzania by looking at the discourses of slave emancipation and conversion at Ndala within the historical context, that is, from 1896 to 1913. The paper relies on the missionary repor…
Slave emancipation, Christian communities, and dissent in western Tanzania, 1878-1960
This dissertation explores the ways marginalized slaves and orphans came together to create new mission communities in western Tanzania. It shows that slave emancipation was a complex process that involved flight to the missions, public declarations, and certification of emancipation. Former slaves joined missions and their descendants became the first-generation Christians, and some worked as teachers, pastors and catechists. The dissertation ce…
Ujamaa, Small Christian Communities, and Moral Reform in Western Tanzania, 1960s–1990
This article examines the efforts of Small Christian Communities (in Kiswahili, Jumuiya Ndogo Ndogo za Kikristo) to carve out a separate space of moral reform and regulation beyond the spheres of ujamaa and state authority between the 1960s and 1990. These communities served as platforms for expressing ideas and addressing social concerns arising from members. They also controlled converts' demeanors and adjudicated issues related to moral laxity…
Decolonizing Curriculum: Slavery, Empire, and History Teaching in Tanzania, 1961—2022
In this paper the author examines the teaching of the history of slavery and empire in schools and universities in Tanzania. The study centers on the history curriculum and university's history course syllabi to show the themes of slavery and empire have been taught in Tanzania over the past five decades of the development of historical knowledge in Tanzania. The author attempts to show that the dominance of nationalist and materialist traditions…
Researching the Aftermath of Slavery in Mainland East Africa: Methodological, Ethical, and Practical Challenges
This article examines ethical, practical, and methodological challenges in researching the aftermath of slavery in continental East Africa away from the coastal plantation belt. Interest in post-slavery there is recent and inspired by the apparent contrast with West Africa, where the issue is much more salient. The article explains this silence by highlighting politically-motivated avoidance of the issue in colonial sources and the preference of …
Women’s Special Seats in Tanzania: Entanglements, Dilemmas, and the Struggle for Political Representation
The government resorted to affirmative action of women special seats as a ‘temporary gap filling’ strategy in 1985. However, the policy is still being implemented to date as an approach for increasing women representation, leading to entanglements, dilemmas and struggles. In this article, we use qualitative data and experiences of women from both the ruling party CCM and leading opposition party CHADEMA to examine the impact of women’s special se…
In Pursuit of Freedom: Oaths, Slave Agency, and the Abolition of Slavery in Western Tanzania, 1905–1930
This article examines ways in which slaves and missionaries used public declarations before witnesses to carve out a distinctive space of legal proceedings in pursuit of emancipation in western Tanzania. This way of pursuing emancipation shows slaves deploying their intellectual creativity and cultural knowledge to shape the German and British colonial legal systems. Interviews provide evidence that these public declarations drew on long-standing…
Muscat in Rural Tanzania: Omani Arabs, Identity, and Citizenship in Post-Slavery Tanzania, 1920s–1960s
Studies on post-slavery in East Africa often concentrate on the aftermath of slavery for the formerly enslaved. By contrast, former owners’ experiences after abolition and during emancipation are rarely explored. This article examines the trajectories of Omani Arabs in western Tanzania during and after the end of slavery, ca. 1910 to the late twentieth century. Having settled and built slavelabour plantations along the central caravan route in th…
Supportive, Destructive, or Indifferent? Expanding Global Markets and the End of Slavery in Continental East Africa in the Twentieth Century
Nineteenth-century East Africa experienced a first and last, rather than second, efflorescence of slavery. Legal abolition occurred late, between 1897 and 1922. Nevertheless, unlike in many other formerly slave-owning societies, most slave descendants here do not form distinctive, marginalized communities today. Still, they hesitate to acknowledge slave ancestry. This paper investigates the dynamics behind this ambivalent outcome. Comparing two r…
Women’s Livelihood and Status Struggles in Tabora after the End of Slavery, 1920s–60
This paper examines the life trajectories, social contexts and living conditions of women of uncertain status in post-slavery, colonial-era Tabora, with a focus on those involved in the production and consumption of beer. It thereby searches insights into the aftermath of slavery in this region, particularly for women. It reflects on the persistent social unease surrounding slavery and its aftermath, and on the way it shapes and limits sources, a…
Kijiji cha Watoro: Resistance, Identity, and Social Life of Nyamwezi Runaway Slaves along the Central Caravan Route in Tanzania
Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Tanzania (8 works) · African history and culture studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (6 works) · Ethnology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works)