Practicing History in Central Tanzania : Writing, Memory, and Performance

Maddox (history, Texas Southern U.) does not need to imagine a Tanzanian historian in order to explore how one might go about the work. He has a flesh and blood case study in Ernest Musa Kongola of Dodoma, a retired educator, church elder, family patriarch, and the single most authoritative historian of the Gogo people who make up the majority of the region's population. His topics include Kongola's autobiography, life maps, gender and subjectivity, and narrating power in Ugogo. Annotation 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)