Making Identity on the Swahili Coast - Urban Life, Community, and Belonging in Bagamoyo

A re-examination of the historical development of urban identity and community along the Swahili Coast.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Owners of the town: Shomvi, Zaramo, Nyamwezi, and Indians; 2. Owners of the town: Baluchis, Omanis, and Spiritans; 3. Becoming Wabagamoyo: a local vocabulary for a Swahili town; 4. The particularities of place: space, identity, and the Coastal Rebellion of 1888-1890; 5. Colonial power, community identity, and consultation; 6. 'Curing the cancer of the colony': undermining local attachments.

About the author

Steven Fabian is an Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Fredonia. Awarded two of Canada's most prestigious scholarships by the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Trust Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, his research has appeared in journals such as the International Journal of African Historical Studies, the Canadian Journal of African Studies, and the Journal of Eastern African Studies. He was President of the Tanzania Studies Association from 2015–2017 and currently serves as co-chair of Radical History Review.

Summary

Combining extensive archival research with local fieldwork in the port of Bagamoyo, Tanzania, this first full history of the town re-examines and re-conceptualises the notion of urban identity as it has been traditionally understood on the Swahili Coast.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Fabian, Steven (State University of New York) Fabian
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781108492041
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49204-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: African Identities: Past and P; African Identities: Past and Present
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Africa / General, African History, Urban communities, Urban communities / city life