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
Introduction
- 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
From Tanganyika’s independence in 1961 to the collapse of the Portuguese empire in 1974, Dar es Salaam was an epicentre of revolution in Africa. The representatives of anticolonial liberation movements set up offices in the city, attracting the interest of the Cold War powers, who sought to expand their influence in the Third World. Meanwhile, the Tanzanian government sought to translate independence into meaningful decolonisation through an ambitious project to build a socialist state. This chapter explains how the lens of the city reveals the connections between the dynamics of the Cold War, decolonisation, and socialist state-making in Tanzania. It locates this approach among new approaches to the history of the Cold War, decolonisation, and global cities. Scattered across continents, the postcolonial archive offers the potential for exploring the revolutionary dynamics which intersected in Dar es Salaam.
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- Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es SalaamAfrican Liberation and the Global Cold War, 1961–1974, pp. 1 - 25Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021