- Ranger , Terence , ed. 1968 . Emerging Themes in African History Nairobi Isaria N. Kimambo & A.J. Temu (eds.), A History of Tanzania (Nairobi/Dsm, 1969); John Iliffe, A Modern History of Tanganyika (Cambridge, 1979). Iliffe's book was published after he had returned to Cambridge from an extended period working at the University of Dar es Salaam in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Geiger , Susan . 1997 . TANU Women: Gender and culture in the making of Tanganyikan nationalism, 1955–65 Edited by: Ranger . 6 – 8 . Portsmouth, NH For the marginalisation of Muslims in the nationalist movement, see Mohamed Said, The Life and Times of Abdulwahid Sykes: The untold story of the Muslim struggle against British colonialism in Tanganyika (London, 1998).
- For East Africa, see e.g., for Tanzania, Andrew Ivaska, ‘Negotiating culture in a cosmopolitan capital: urban style and the Tanzanian state in colonial and postcolonial Dar es Salaam’, University of Michigan Ph.D. thesis (2003), chapters 4–6; Leander Schneider, ‘Developmentalism and its failings: why rural development went wrong in 1960s and 1970s Tanzania’, Columbia University Ph.D. thesis (2003); Tom Cadogan, ‘Students and schools in the Southern Highlands: Education in Tanzania, 1890s to the present’, SOAS Ph.D. thesis, intro and chapters 5–6; James R. Brennan, ‘Blood enemies: exploitation and urban citizenship in the nationalist political thought of Tanzania, 1958–1975’, Journal of African History (in press, vol. 47/3); and Andrew Burton, ‘The Haven of Peace purged: tackling the undesirable and unproductive poor in late-colonial and postcolonial Dar es Salaam’ (in prep.); for Kenya, Lynn Thomas, The Politics of the Womb: Women, reproduction and the state in Kenya, Berkeley/LA/London (2003), chapter 5; the final chapter of Daniel Branch's forthcoming Oxford University Ph.D. on Mau Mau loyalists; and Gabrielle Lynch's forthcoming Oxford University Ph.D. on Kalenjin politics and identity. Unfortunately, postcolonial (and, to a lesser extent, colonial) Uganda remains sorely neglected by historians.
- Cooper , Frederick . 2002 . Africa Since 1940 Cambridge Crawford Young, ‘The end of the postcolonial state in Africa? Reflections on changing African political dynamics’, African Affairs, 103:1 (2004), pp.23-49; Stephen Ellis, ‘Writing histories of contemporary Africa’, JAH, 43:1 (2002).
- Temu , Arnold . 2000 . ‘Not telling: African history at the end of the millennium’ . South African Historical Journal , 42 : 2 – 10 . and Frederick Cooper, ‘Africa's pasts and Africa's historians’, African Sociological Review, 3 (1999), pp. 1–29. After all, as Ellis (ibid.) observes, the ‘new states required new historical charters.’ See also
- Kenya , E.S. , Odhiambo , Atieno and Lonsdale , John , eds. 2003 . Mau Mau and Nationhood Oxford See e.g. (in addition to works cited above), for David M. Anderson, ‘“Yours in struggle for majimbo”: nationalism and the party politics of decolonisation in Kenya, 1955 to 1964’, Journal of Contemporary History, 39 (July 2005), pp. 547–64; Daniel Branch & Nicholas Cheeseman (eds), Our Turn to Eat! Politics in Kenya since 1950 (f/c - Berlin, 2007); and for Tanzania, Steven Feierman, Peasant Intellectuals: Anthropology and history in Tanzania (Madison, WI, 1990); James R. Brennan, ‘Nation, race and urbanization in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1916–1976’, Ph.D. thesis, Northwestern University (2002).
- Davidson , Basil . 1992 . The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the curse of the nation state London and Mahmood Mamdani, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism (Oxford, 1996).
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