'The history and affairs of TANU': intellectual history, nationalism, and the postcolonial state in Tanzania

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Title:	'The history and affairs of TANU': intellectual history, nationalism, and the postcolonial state in Tanzania
Author:	Hunter, Emma
Year:	2012
Periodical:	International Journal of African Historical Studies (ISSN 0361-7882)
Volume:	45
Issue:	3
Pages:	365-383
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Tanzania
Subjects:	historical sources intellectual history TANU nationalism decolonization 1960-1969
About person:	Lameck Bogohe
Abstract:	In this article the author explores the unpublished Swahili-language text of a Tanzanian nationalist, Lameck Bogohe, in the context of two published Swahili-language histories of TANU (Tanzanian/Tanganyika African National Union), both of which appeared in the 1960s. The purpose is two-fold: in order to make this text known to a wider audience, and to analyze the text as a reflection on political society by a person marginalized from power in the postcolonial State. The text shows, among other things, that intellectual histories of mid-twentieth-century Africa have the potential to offer new perspectives about postcolonial African political thought as well as on the wider question of how decolonization is understood. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]