Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar

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MARIA SURIANO

University of the Witwatersrand

© 2014 Maria Suriano

Notes

1. See, for example, L. Fair, Pastimes and Politics: Culture, Community and Identity in Post-Abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890–1945 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001).

2. J. R. Brennan, A. Burton, and Y. Lawi, eds, Dar es Salaam: Histories from an Emerging African Metropolis (Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota; Nairobi: BIEA, 2007), esp. 1–75. Here Dar es Salaam is theorised as a Swahili city.

3. P. Curtin, ‘Medical Knowledge and Urban Planning in Tropical Africa’, American Historical Review, 90, 3 (1985), 594–613.

4. D. M. Anderson and R. Rathbone, eds, Africa's Urban Past (Oxford: James Currey, 2000). Bissel's essay is entitled ‘Conservation and the Colonial Past, Urban Planning, Space and Power in Zanzibar’; for Spear's chapter, see the same collection. Burton has written extensively on British policies in Dar es Salaam and their limitations. See, for example, the 2002 special issue of Azania; and A. Burton, African Underclass: Urbanisation, Crime and Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam, 1919–61 (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2005).