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Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania - Freedom, Democracy and Citizenship in the Era of Decolonization

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Emma Hunter is a Lecturer in History at the University of Edinburgh. She has published in the Historical Journal, the Journal of Global History, and the African Studies Review. Klappentext This book is a study of the interplay of vernacular and global languages of politics during Africa's decolonization. Zusammenfassung Starting in 1945 and culminating with the Arusha Declaration of 1967! Emma Hunter explores political argument in mainland Tanzania's public sphere to show how political narratives succeeded when they managed to combine promises of freedom with new forms of belonging at both a local and national level. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Concepts of progress in mid-twentieth-century Tanzania; 2. Transnational languages of democracy after 1945; 3. Representation, imperial citizenship and the political subject in late colonial Tanganyika; 4. Patriotic citizenship and the case of the Kilimanjaro Chagga Citizens Union; 5. Freedom in translation; 6. Languages of democracy in Kilimanjaro and the fall of Marealle; 7. One party democracy: citizenship and political society in the post-colonial state; 8. Ujamaa and the Arusha Declaration; Conclusion.

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