Book contents
- Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam
- African Studies Series
- Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Making of a Cold War City in Eastern Africa
- 2 Revisiting the Politics of the Arusha Declaration
- 3 Dilemmas of Non-Alignment: Tanzania and the German Cold War
- 4 The Assassination of Eduardo Mondlane: Mozambican Revolutionaries in Dar es Salaam
- 5 Tanzania’s ’68: Cold War Interventions, Youth Protest, and Global Anti-Imperialism
- 6 Decolonising the Media: Press and Politics in Revolutionary Dar es Salaam
- 7 Mwongozo: The African Revolution, Reloaded
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- African Studies Series
3 - Dilemmas of Non-Alignment: Tanzania and the German Cold War
- Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam
- African Studies Series
- Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Making of a Cold War City in Eastern Africa
- 2 Revisiting the Politics of the Arusha Declaration
- 3 Dilemmas of Non-Alignment: Tanzania and the German Cold War
- 4 The Assassination of Eduardo Mondlane: Mozambican Revolutionaries in Dar es Salaam
- 5 Tanzania’s ’68: Cold War Interventions, Youth Protest, and Global Anti-Imperialism
- 6 Decolonising the Media: Press and Politics in Revolutionary Dar es Salaam
- 7 Mwongozo: The African Revolution, Reloaded
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- African Studies Series
Summary
The rivalry between the two states of divided Germany played out on a global scale across the Third World. The chain of upheavals in East Africa in 1964-65 led to Dar es Salaam becoming the first African capital south of the Sahara in which the German Democratic Republic maintained a diplomatic mission. This turned the city into a propaganda battlefield. East Berlin strove for full recognition from Tanzania, while Bonn tried to prevent such a development from coming to pass. In the face of this rivalry, Julius Nyerere’s government sought to pursue a non-aligned foreign policy and broker aid agreements to further its socialist project. Adopting a triangular approach, this chapter demonstrates how Tanzania’s relationship with the two German states turned on developments in Central Europe, especially West Germany’s Ostpolitik. It reveals the challenges of upholding non-alignment in a Cold War world which did not revolve around simple binaries and was complicated by politics ‘on the ground’ in Dar es Salaam.
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- Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es SalaamAfrican Liberation and the Global Cold War, 1961–1974, pp. 100 - 134Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021