Remembering Julius Nyerere in Tanzania

This edited volume is about the rekindled investment in the figure of the first president Julius K. Nyerere in contemporary Tanzania. It explores how Nyerere is remembered by Tanzanians from different levels of society, in what ways and for what purposes. Looking into what Nyerere means and stands for today, it provides insight into the media, the political arena, poetry, the education sector, or street-corner talks. The main argument of this book is that Nyerere has become a widely shared political metaphor used to debate and contest conceptions of the Tanzanian nation and Tanzanian-ness. The state-citizens relationship, the moral standards for the exercise of power, and the contours of national sentiment are under scrutiny when the figure of Nyerere is mobilized today. The contributions gathered here come from a generation of budding or renowned scholars in varied disciplines - history, anthropology and political science. Drawing upon materials collected through extensive fieldwork and archival research, they all critically engage the existing literature about Tanzania and prevailing political narratives to explore how nationhood is (re)imagined in Tanzania today through assent and contest

Argument (complex analysis · Art · CONTEST · Ethnology · Literature · Media studies · Metaphor · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Scrutiny · Sociology · Tanzania · African history and culture studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Philosophy · Kollektives Gedächtnis · politics and government

• Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa

  Michael G Schatzberg, Michael Schatzberg•Political Legitimacy in Middle…•2001

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• Metahistory

  Hayden White•Metahistory•1973

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• Tanzania

  Andrew Coulson•Tanzania•2013

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• Outline of a Theory of Practice

  Open Access•Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Nice•On Violence•2007

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• A Modern History of Tanganyika

  Open Access•John Iliffe, J H Iliffe et al.•Modern History of Tanganyika•1979

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• Governance, democracy and recent political struggles in Mainland Tanzania

  Tim Kelsall•Commonwealth and Comparative…•2003

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• Mwalimu

  Gair M Gerhart, Colin Legum et al.•Foreign Affairs•1997

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• Reinterpreting revolutionary Zanzibar in the media today

  Marie-Aude Fouéré•Contemporary Issues in Swahili…•2018

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• Political Leadership in Africa

  Jennifer Seymour Whitaker, John Cartwright•Foreign Affairs•1983

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• Personal Rule in Black Africa

  Robert H Jackson, Carl G Rosberg•Personal Rule in Black Africa•1982

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• It Means as if We Are Excluded From the Good Freedom’

  Open Access•Giacomo Macola•The Journal of African History•2006

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• The ‘New Historiography’ in Dar Es Salaam

  Terence Ranger•African Affairs•1971

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• Between Memory and History

  Pierre Nora•Representations•1989

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• History and Memory

  Richard Robert, Richard Roberts•The International Journal of…•2000

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• Expectations of Modernity

  James Ferguson•Expectations of Modernity•2019

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• Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

  Anthony Reid, Benedict Anderson•Pacific Affairs•1985

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• Defending the People's Railway in the Era of Liberalization

  Jamie Monson•Africa•2006

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• Freedom and Development/Uhuru na Maendeleo

  Open Access•Perry Mcd Collins, Paul Collins et al.•Canadian Journal of African…•1975

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• The Past as a Scarce Resource

  A Appadurai•Man•1981

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• Social Memory Studies

  Jeffrey K Olick, Joyce Robbins•Annual Review of Sociology•1998

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• Recasting Julius Nyerere in Zanzibar

  Marie-Aude Fouéré•Journal of Eastern African Studies•2014

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• RevisitingUjamaa

  Emma Hunter•Journal of Eastern African Studies•2008

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• An imperial enterprise

  Michael Mwenda Kithinji•Canadian Journal of African…•2012

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• Freedom and Unfreedom in Rural Development

  Leander Schneider•Canadian Journal of African…•2004

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• Remembering Work on the Tazara Railway in Africa and China, 1965-2011

  Jamie Monson•African Studies Review•2013

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