Remembering Julius Nyerere in Tanzania : : history, memory, legacy / / edited by Marie-Aude Fouéré.

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 f...

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Superior document:Africae Studies
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Place / Publishing House:Dar-es-Salaam : : Mkuki Na Nyota,, [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Africae Studies
Physical Description:1 online resource (342 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • part 1. 'Capturing' Julius Nyerere
  • 1. "Julius Nyerere" : the man, the word, and the order of discourse / Marie-Aude Fouere
  • 2. Julius Nyerere, Ujamaa and political morality in contemporary Tanzania / Marie-Aude Fouere
  • part 2. Entering and securing the political space
  • 3. Julius Kambarage Nyerere : his formative years / Thomas Molony
  • 4. Julius Nyerere, the Arusha Declaration, and the deep roots of a contemporary political metaphor / Emma Hunter
  • part 3. In search of a tutelary figure
  • 5. Nyerere's ghost : political filiation, paternal discipline, and the construction of legitimacy in multiparty Tanzania / Kristin D. Phillips
  • 6. Different 'uses of Nyerere' in the constitutional review debates : a touchstone for legitimacy in Tanzania / Aikande C. Kwayu
  • part 4. Julius Nyerere & his critics
  • 7. Julius Rex : Nyerere through the eyes of his critics, 1953-2013 / James R. Brennan
  • 8. Julius Nyerere in Zanzibar : the revolution, the union and the enemy of the nation / Marie-Aude Fouere
  • part 5. Politics & poetry
  • 9. Tanzanian newspaper poetry : political commentary in verse / Kelly Askew
  • 10. The poetry of an orphaned nation : newspaper poetry and the death of Nyerere / Mary Ann Mhina
  • part 6. Post-Mwalimu education?
  • 11. The University of Dar es Salaam : a post-Nyerere institution of higher education? Legacies, continuities and changes in an institutional space (1961-2012) / Olivier Provini
  • 12. Ward secondary schools, elite narratives and Nyerere's legacy / Sonia Languille.