An animated account of district administration in rural Tanganyika during the last years of Britain's trusteeship and rapid political change. Illustrated with b/w photographs and line drawings, xii, Index, apps, 260pp, UK. AUTHORS ONLINE LTD, 0755201221

Documents the changes that have taken place in Tanzania from the middle of the twentieth century to the present day, through the prism of an East African Asian experience. The author sheds new light on the character and legacy of Julius Nyerere. Index, b/w photos, 163pp, UK. I B TAURIS.

A record of ten years service as a District Officer. B/w & col ill, xii, index, 459pp, UK. GRACEWING Publishers, 0852445512

This collection contains major papers delivered at a conference dedicated to the memory of Julius Nyerere, held in January 2000 at the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The contributors, scholars and diplomats in Russia with Africa interests, rank Nyerere on a par with national leaders such as Gandhi, Nkrumah and Nasser. Translated from the Russian by B.G. Petruk. 79pp, TANZANIA. MKUKI NA NYOTA PUBLISHERS.

Francis Hall was a Victorian man of the British empire who sailed from England to Mombasa in 1892 to work for the Imperial British East African Company. He wrote a series of letters to his immediate family, which were recently discovered in the Kenya National Archive. The letters are published here in their original form, along with supplementary information from the Royal Geographical Society in London, and material gleaned from the Francis Hall archive in Oxford on the early days of colonial settlement. Maps, 181pp, TANZANIA. MKUKI NA NYOTA PUBLISHERS.

Nyerere had an important influence on development discourse and practice in Africa and beyond, and this collection of essays offers a critical reflection on one of Africa's most important figures. 160pp. USA . AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

Mzee Ali Kalikilima was born near the present-day town of Tabora in western Tanzania, probably in the 1870s (there is mention of 'The Doctor' - Dr David Livingstone) to black Muslim parents of noble birth. Aged 14, Mzee Ali led his first slaving safari to the shores of Lake Tanganyika and thence, with his caravan of captured slaves and ivory, through the malaria-, tsetse fly- and lion-infested wilds, to the Arab markets of Dar es Salaam, some 1,200 kilometres away on the Indian Ocean. With the arrival of the German colonizers, Mzee Ali joined the German East African forces as an askari. 224pp, SOUTH AFRICA. 30' SOUTH.

Nyerere, the founding father of Tanzania, was one of the pioneers of African nationalism and Pan-Africanism. He ruled peacefully, retired voluntarily, and oversaw a peaceful transfer of power to his successors. Contents: The 1800s to the 1950s; Independence; The Uncertain Years; African Socialism; The Years in between; Zanzibar; Nyerere's last decade; the end of an era. Large format, many b/w illus. 299pp. TANZANIA/UGANDA . FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.