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Africa's freedom railway : how a Chinese development project changed lives and livelihoods in Tanzania
The TAZARA (Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority), or Freedom Railway, from Dar es Salaam on the Tanzanian coast to the Copperbelt region of Zambia, was instrumental in fostering one of the most sweeping development transitions in postcolonial Africa. Built during the height of the Cold War, the railway was intended to redirect the mineral wealth of the interior away from routes through South Africa and Rhodesia. Rebuffed by Western aid agencies, newly independent Tanzania and Zambia accepted help from China to construct what would become one of Africa's most vital transportation corridors. The book follows the railroad from design and construction to its daily use as a vital means for moving villagers and goods. It tells a story of how transnational interests contributed to environmental change, population movements, and the rise of local and regional enterprise.
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African Studies: New Directions, Global Engagements
In 1997, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza wrote as president of the African Studies Association that the field of African studies had been plagued by perpetual crisis since its institutionalization in the 1950s. The crisis had its roots in deeply embedded historical structures of race and hierarchy, on the one hand, and institutional power over the production of knowledge on the other. He wrote that scholars in the field were working in unyielding solitudes and bitter contestations that divided African American from European American and from African scholars. Sandra E. Greene, speaking as president of the African Studies Association the following year, made a similar argument, stating that the crisis in the field would continue so long as Africanist scholarship from the North continued to play a gatekeeping role and remained detached from African realities. In 2010, Paul Zeleza published in the African Studies Review an article that summarized the results of a four-year project in African diaspora studies. He sought to broaden the frame of African diaspora research and analysis spatially and temporally.
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Remembering Work on the Tazara Railway in Africa and China, 1965–2011: When “New Men” Grow Old
In China, Tanzania, and Zambia, state officials participate in an ongoing articulation of official memory of the TAZARA railway project of the 1970s. In high-level diplomatic relations, the TAZARA project and its construction workers are continually held up as a foundational legacy for China–African development cooperation and friendship. However, the now-retired workers who built the railway tell very different kinds of stories about their experiences. In the context of recent economic liberalization policies, retired TAZARA workers draw on individual and collective memories of railway building to achieve both recognition and material security in a world in which they feel forgotten. They seek resolution of their grievances in old age through the telling and retelling of narratives of their youth. By doing so, they claim their own right to remember in the face of ongoing official efforts to reinvent heroic pasts. En Chine, en Tanzanie et en Gambie, les responsables politiques participent à un projet de commémoration de la construction des chemins de fer TAZARA dans les années 70. Pour les relations diplomatiques de haut niveau, le projet TAZARA et ses ouvriers représentent continuellement un modèle fondateur pour la coopération et l’amitié entre la Chine et l’Afrique. Les ouvriers à présent retraités qui ont construit le chemin de fer ont de leur côté des histoires bien différentes à raconter sur leur expérience de la construction. Dans le contexte des politiques récentes de libéralisation économique, les ouvriers retraités du projet TAZARA utilisent des souvenirs collectifs et individuels de la construction pour rechercher à la fois une reconnaissance une sécurité matérielle dans un monde où ils se sentent oubliés. Ils font appel à la prise en compte de leurs doléances dans leur vieil âge en racontant sans relâche les histoires de leur jeunesse sur le chantier. Ce faisant, ils réclament leur droit de commémoration face aux efforts politiques en cours de réinventer un passé héroïque.
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Learning by heart: Training for self-reliance on the TAZARA railway, 1968-1976
During construction of the TAZARA railway between 1968 and 1975, most African workers learned skills on the job. A smaller number were selected to participate in specialised training, initially in makeshift classrooms and later in more structured institutes. Like today's China-Africa infrastructure projects, TAZARA embodied an intersection of political and economic motivations that belies the artificial binary of socialism/ capitalism, or ideology/practicality, that is often projected on the history of this Cold War era. By understanding the ways in which often contradictory development priorities came together- including how they shaped, and were shaped by, the workers themselves-we gain a much deeper understanding of the significance and long-term impact of infrastructure development in China-Africa engagements across time and space.
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Maji Maji
This volume reexamines the Maji Maji war of 1905-07 in Tanzania, the largest African rebellion against European colonialism. Contributors provide histories of previously neglected localities and groups, and new insight into the use of protective medicines believed to provide invulnerability.
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Remembering Work on the Tazara Railway in Africa and China, 1965-2011: When \New Men\ Grow Old
In China, Tanzania, and Zambia, state officials participate in an ongoing articulation of official memory of the TAZARA railway project of the 1970s. In high-level diplomatic relations, the TAZARA project and its construction workers are continually held up as a foundational legacy for China-African development cooperation and friendship. However, the now-retired workers who built the railway tell very different kinds of stories about their experiences. In the context of recent economic liberalization policies, retired TAZARA workers draw on individual and collective memories of railway building to achieve both recognition and material security in a world in which they feel forgotten. They seek resolution of their grievances in old age through the telling and retelling of narratives of their youth. By doing so, they claim their own right to remember in the face of ongoing official efforts to reinvent heroic pasts. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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