Maria Suriano
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 79158 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Maria Suriano |
| PRENOMES | Maria |
| SOBRENOME | Suriano |
| ASSINATURA | SURIANO M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4838-9815 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
A Longer Walk to Freedom
African Literature in Transition
This book offers a compelling vision of the dynamism of local printing presses across colonial Africa and the new textual forms they generated. It invites a reconceptualisation of African literature as a field by revealing the profusion of local, innovative textual production that surrounded and preceded canonical European-language literary traditions. Bringing together examples of print production in African, Europea and Arabic languages, it exp…
Pioneers of the Popular
Due to the dearth of indigenous publishing houses in colonial Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania), the Swahili press became an integral part of the local public sphere. Limited factual reporting and a well-established practice of public verbal exchange made letters to the editor and rhyming poems (mashairi) largely composed by amateur poets the key medium through which African writings circulated in the 1930s–50s. Contributors used the press to expres…
Dreams and constraints of an African publisher
This article explores the history of two Tanzanian publishing houses and the remarkable life and career of Walter Bgoya, former general manager of Tanzania Publishing House (1972–90) and managing director of Mkuki na Nyota, which he founded in 1991. Using the lens of microhistory, and drawing from extensive interviews with Bgoya and conversations with two colleagues and three authors, the article first chronicles his early life and ideological fo…
Unsettling the Ranks
While much of the extant scholarship on The Bantu World has addressed the English language content, this article shifts the focus to previously unexplored 1930s Zulu-language writings on African advancement and unity. It makes an intervention into the study of African explorations of the possibilities and limits of progress amidst the abiding challenges and paradoxes of colonial modernity, in a setting characterised by increasing segregation. The…
Transnational Music Collaborations, Affective Networks and Everyday Practices of Convivial Solidarity in Ujamaa Dar es Salaam
Independent Tanzania became a prominent frontline state in the struggle against white minority regimes in the early 1960s and remained committed to the total liberation of Africa until South African repatriations in the early 1990s. For three decades the country was a hub of Pan-Africanism and saw an extraordinarily high involvement of Tanzanians in supporting the southern African liberation movements in ways that went beyond TANU/CCM’s primary d…
Mzee Waziri Omari Nyange
Drawing on private papers and interviews conducted between 2009 and 2015, this article analyses the Swahili lyrics (mashairi) of three of the twelve songs or sung poems composed between the mid-2000s and 2015 by Mzee Waziri Omari Nyange (born 1936), a Muslim man of peasant origins who was once a solo guitarist with the renowned Cuban Marimba Jazz Band, a craftsperson and a herbalist. He is still active as a healer, promoter of Tanzanian culture a…
Afrikaners is Plesierig!VoëlvryMusic, Anti-apartheid Identities and Rockey Street Nightclubs in Yeoville (Johannesburg), 1980s-90s
In the 1980s, Afrikaans-speaking young South Africans increasingly disassociated themselves from the dominant institutions, i.e., the Calvinist church, the state and the parental generation. Their oppositional ideas could be partly conveyed through Voëlvry, rock-punkish music at the time labelled ‘Boerepunk’ and ‘Alternative Afrikaans Music Movement’, which lasted for a short span of time, between the 1980s and the early 1990s. Voëlvry contribute…
Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar
MARIA SURIANOUniversity of the Witwatersrand© 2014 Maria Suriano
Married to the ANC
The end of apartheid has opened up new research possibilities into the history of the African National Congress (ANC). Yet the scholarship on the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), remains largely restricted to questions of strategic, political and military effectiveness. The transnational character of the anti-apartheid struggle is mostly absent from nationalist historiographies, while little is known about the daily lives of those who ma…
Taifa
This rigorous, well-written and insightful award-winning book deals with Dar es Salaam (Tanganyika/Tanzania) between the interwar period and the early 1970s. In a dense introduction and five chapte...
Making the Modern
This article focuses on muziki wa dansi (dance music, i.e., 'urban jazz' and ballroom dancing), a genre that became extraordinarily popular in post-1945 Tanganyika, primarily in towns. While musicians and aficionados, mainly 'young' townspeople, embraced this music and related dances as a means for shaping cosmopolitan and 'modern' identities, most African 'elders' condemned ballroom dancing and dancers' conduct. By drawing on oral sources, combi…
Popular music, identity and politics in a colonial urban space
This chapter aims to contribute to the recent historiography which attempts to understand the complex relationship between leisure, popular culture, identity and politics in Mwanza, Tanzania in colonial urban Africa. The focus is on Mwanza, on the shore of Lake Victoria (North-Western Tanzania), in the space of a relatively short period of time, that is, from the end of the Second World War up to independence in 1961. This contribution particular…
Clothing and the changing identities of Tanganyikan urban youths, 1920s-1950s
Leisure and popular culture have long played an important role in all aspects of life throughout the African continent. It has been recognised that the analysis of leisure and popular culture can put social practices, as well as political issues into relief. For instance, in colonial Brazzaville, Gold Coast and urban Zanzibar, dress and fashion not only symbolised change, but they were also tools for affirming and 'crystallising' new generational…
Clothing and the changing identities of Tanganyikan urban youths, 1920s-1950s
Leisure and popular culture have long played an important role in all aspects of life throughout the African continent. It has been recognised that the analysis of leisure and popular culture can put social practices, as well as political issues into relief. For instance, in colonial Brazzaville, Gold Coast and urban Zanzibar, dress and fashion not only symbolised change, but they were also tools for affirming and 'crystallising' new generational…
Married to the ANC
The end of apartheid has opened up new research possibilities into the history of the African National Congress (ANC). Yet the scholarship on the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), remains largely restricted to questions of strategic, political and military effectiveness. The transnational character of the anti-apartheid struggle is mostly absent from nationalist historiographies, while little is known about the daily lives of those who ma…
Dreams and constraints of an African publisher
This article explores the history of two Tanzanian publishing houses and the remarkable life and career of Walter Bgoya, former general manager of Tanzania Publishing House (1972–90) and managing director of Mkuki na Nyota, which he founded in 1991. Using the lens of microhistory, and drawing from extensive interviews with Bgoya and conversations with two colleagues and three authors, the article first chronicles his early life and ideological fo…
Making the Modern
This article focuses on muziki wa dansi (dance music, i.e., 'urban jazz' and ballroom dancing), a genre that became extraordinarily popular in post-1945 Tanganyika, primarily in towns. While musicians and aficionados, mainly 'young' townspeople, embraced this music and related dances as a means for shaping cosmopolitan and 'modern' identities, most African 'elders' condemned ballroom dancing and dancers' conduct. By drawing on oral sources, combi…
Afrikaners is Plesierig!VoëlvryMusic, Anti-apartheid Identities and Rockey Street Nightclubs in Yeoville (Johannesburg), 1980s-90s
In the 1980s, Afrikaans-speaking young South Africans increasingly disassociated themselves from the dominant institutions, i.e., the Calvinist church, the state and the parental generation. Their oppositional ideas could be partly conveyed through Voëlvry, rock-punkish music at the time labelled ‘Boerepunk’ and ‘Alternative Afrikaans Music Movement’, which lasted for a short span of time, between the 1980s and the early 1990s. Voëlvry contribute…
Clothing and the changing identities of Tanganyikan urban youths, 1920s-1950s
Leisure and popular culture have long played an important role in all aspects of life throughout the African continent. It has been recognised that the analysis of leisure and popular culture can put social practices, as well as political issues into relief. For instance, in colonial Brazzaville, Gold Coast and urban Zanzibar, dress and fashion not only symbolised change, but they were also tools for affirming and 'crystallising' new generational…
Popular music, identity and politics in a colonial urban space
This chapter aims to contribute to the recent historiography which attempts to understand the complex relationship between leisure, popular culture, identity and politics in Mwanza, Tanzania in colonial urban Africa. The focus is on Mwanza, on the shore of Lake Victoria (North-Western Tanzania), in the space of a relatively short period of time, that is, from the end of the Second World War up to independence in 1961. This contribution particular…
Making the Modern
This article focuses on muziki wa dansi (dance music, i.e., 'urban jazz' and ballroom dancing), a genre that became extraordinarily popular in post-1945 Tanganyika, primarily in towns. While musicians and aficionados, mainly 'young' townspeople, embraced this music and related dances as a means for shaping cosmopolitan and 'modern' identities, most African 'elders' condemned ballroom dancing and dancers' conduct. By drawing on oral sources, combi…
Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar
MARIA SURIANOUniversity of the Witwatersrand© 2014 Maria Suriano
Married to the ANC
The end of apartheid has opened up new research possibilities into the history of the African National Congress (ANC). Yet the scholarship on the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), remains largely restricted to questions of strategic, political and military effectiveness. The transnational character of the anti-apartheid struggle is mostly absent from nationalist historiographies, while little is known about the daily lives of those who ma…
Taifa
This rigorous, well-written and insightful award-winning book deals with Dar es Salaam (Tanganyika/Tanzania) between the interwar period and the early 1970s. In a dense introduction and five chapte...
Mzee Waziri Omari Nyange
Drawing on private papers and interviews conducted between 2009 and 2015, this article analyses the Swahili lyrics (mashairi) of three of the twelve songs or sung poems composed between the mid-2000s and 2015 by Mzee Waziri Omari Nyange (born 1936), a Muslim man of peasant origins who was once a solo guitarist with the renowned Cuban Marimba Jazz Band, a craftsperson and a herbalist. He is still active as a healer, promoter of Tanzanian culture a…
Afrikaners is Plesierig!VoëlvryMusic, Anti-apartheid Identities and Rockey Street Nightclubs in Yeoville (Johannesburg), 1980s-90s
In the 1980s, Afrikaans-speaking young South Africans increasingly disassociated themselves from the dominant institutions, i.e., the Calvinist church, the state and the parental generation. Their oppositional ideas could be partly conveyed through Voëlvry, rock-punkish music at the time labelled ‘Boerepunk’ and ‘Alternative Afrikaans Music Movement’, which lasted for a short span of time, between the 1980s and the early 1990s. Voëlvry contribute…
Transnational Music Collaborations, Affective Networks and Everyday Practices of Convivial Solidarity in Ujamaa Dar es Salaam
Independent Tanzania became a prominent frontline state in the struggle against white minority regimes in the early 1960s and remained committed to the total liberation of Africa until South African repatriations in the early 1990s. For three decades the country was a hub of Pan-Africanism and saw an extraordinarily high involvement of Tanzanians in supporting the southern African liberation movements in ways that went beyond TANU/CCM’s primary d…
Dreams and constraints of an African publisher
This article explores the history of two Tanzanian publishing houses and the remarkable life and career of Walter Bgoya, former general manager of Tanzania Publishing House (1972–90) and managing director of Mkuki na Nyota, which he founded in 1991. Using the lens of microhistory, and drawing from extensive interviews with Bgoya and conversations with two colleagues and three authors, the article first chronicles his early life and ideological fo…
Unsettling the Ranks
While much of the extant scholarship on The Bantu World has addressed the English language content, this article shifts the focus to previously unexplored 1930s Zulu-language writings on African advancement and unity. It makes an intervention into the study of African explorations of the possibilities and limits of progress amidst the abiding challenges and paradoxes of colonial modernity, in a setting characterised by increasing segregation. The…
African Literature in Transition
This book offers a compelling vision of the dynamism of local printing presses across colonial Africa and the new textual forms they generated. It invites a reconceptualisation of African literature as a field by revealing the profusion of local, innovative textual production that surrounded and preceded canonical European-language literary traditions. Bringing together examples of print production in African, Europea and Arabic languages, it exp…
Pioneers of the Popular
Due to the dearth of indigenous publishing houses in colonial Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania), the Swahili press became an integral part of the local public sphere. Limited factual reporting and a well-established practice of public verbal exchange made letters to the editor and rhyming poems (mashairi) largely composed by amateur poets the key medium through which African writings circulated in the 1930s–50s. Contributors used the press to expres…
A Longer Walk to Freedom
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