Includes bibliographical references and index.

On socially composed knowledge: reconstructing a Shambaa royal ritual / Steven Feierman -- Kingalu Mwana Shaha and political leadership in nineteenth-century eastern Tanzania / Edward A. Alpers -- Colonial boundaries & African nationalism: the case of the Kagera Salient / Ralph A. Austen -- Indirect rule, the politics of neo-traditionalism and the limits of invention in Tanzania / Thomas Spear -- Narrating power in colonial Ugogo: Mazengo of Mvumi / Gregory H. Maddox -- The tribal past and the politics of nationalism in Mahenge district: 1940-60 / Jamie Monson -- The landscapes of memory in twentieth-century Africa / E.S. Atieno Odhiambo -- Some complexities of family & state in colonial Njombe / James L. Giblin -- Local, regional & national: south Rukwa in the 1950s / Marcia Wright -- Breaking the chain at its weakest link: TANU and the colonial office / John Iliffe -- Censoring the press in colonial Zanzibar: an account of the seditious case against Al-Falaq / Lawrence E.Y. Mbogoni -- An imagined generation: Umma youth in nationalist Zanzibar / Thomas Burgess -- The short history of political opposition & multi-party democracy in Tanganyika: 1958-64 / James R. Brennan -- Engendering & gendering African nationalism: rethinking the case of Tangayika (Tanzania) / Susan Geiger -- Between the 'global' & 'local' families: the missing link in school history teaching in postcolonial Tanzania / Yusuf Q. Lawi -- Jack-of-all-arts or Ustadhi? The poetics of cultural production in Tanzania / Kelly M. Askew.