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Dar es Salaam. Histories from an Emerging African Metropolis
"From its modest beginnings in the 1860s, Dar es Salaam has grown to become one of Africa's most important urban centres. A major political, economic and cultural hub, the city has also acted as a crucible of local social and cultural innovation, exerting a powerful influence on wider Tanzanian society. Reflecting important contemporary socio-economic trends of urban Africa, it has recently attracted the attention of a diverse range of scholars from several disciplines. This collection draws on the best of this scholarship." --Book Jacket.
The Human Tradition in Modern Africa
This rich collection of biographies of African men and women adds a crucial human dimension to our understanding of African history since 1800. The last two centuries have been a time of enormous change on the continent, and these life stories show how people survived by resisting European conquest and colonial rule, by collaborating with colonial powers, or by finding a middle way to live their lives through tumultuous times. Bringing the story to the present, the book traces the era of independence since the 1960s through challenges to the rule of African dictators, struggles for the rights of women and mothers, the exploitation of youth and child soldiers, and economic booms and busts. By...
Between Resistance and Expansion
This book grew from an International Symposium on "Local Vitality and the Globalization of the Local" at Bayreuth University in May 2002
Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part 2 Locations (5 Vol Set)
"EPMOW lives music. Put another way, it does for popular music what Grove has done for classical" David Brackett ‘Excellent, readable and thoroughly useful...While some previous single-volume and multivolume works have addressed the development and current state of popular music, none has done so with this work's depth of scholarship and global reach. Scholarly, clearly written, and well indexed, it is an ideal reference set.' Library Journal Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World's five-volume work ‘Locations' is the most authoritative reference work on the history and current practice of popular music ever published. The five volumes on ‘Locations' that form Part 2 of t...
The Life that I Live
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Busara
Sauti za Busara (Sounds of Wisdom) has firmly established itself as one of Africa's leading music festivals. Over the years, the festival has evolved into a stage for artists from across Africa. You'll find everything there, from classic Zanzibar taarab and traditional ngoma, Rwandan folk, Ugandan pop, Tanzanian bongo flava, Senegalese hiphop, West African kora to cross cultural excursions and much more. The event attracts people of all ages and backgrounds from around East Africa and increasingly visitors from as far afield as Canada, Japan and Europe.
