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

Contributions from leading commentators, those who worked and fought imperialism alongside Nyerere, members of a younger generation - and Nyerere in his own words. Their writings reflect on Nyerere and liberation, the Commonwealth, leadership, economic development, land, human rights and education. 216pp, UK. PAMBAZUKA.

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.

Charles Meek's account of his twenty years in Tanganyika - now Tanzania - goes to the heart of British colonial rule at the end of empire. Arriving in the former German colony during the dark days of World War II, Meek describes the challenges of living in a remote colony in war-time and of life among a remarkable cast of frontier characters and colleagues. By the late 1940s, however, the drive towards nationalism had gained pace. There were experiments with forms of indirect rule with local tribal leaders but all was suddenly overtaken by the momentum of the independence movement and in 1957 Meek was moved to Dar es Salaam. Here he was embroiled in the fast-moving events leading to decolonization, working as Permanent Secretary to the Chief Minister, Julius Nyerere. 288pp, UK. RADCLIFFE PRESS.

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

Story of the journey made by a very few Africans of his generation, from humble beginnings to the corridors of high office as the first Governor of the Bank of Tanzania and the architect of Central Banking in Tanzania, Secretary General of the East African Community and Minister of Finance in Nyerere’s Government. 246pp, TANZANIA. MKUKI NA NYOTA PUBLISHERS.

The first comprehensive study of Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, who took office in 2005. An analysis of President Kikwete's beginnings as a party functionary and charting his rise to the highest political office in the country, delineating a narrative on the relationship between Kikwete's political evolution and the contemporary history of Tanzania since independence. 352pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

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.

Shelby Tucker first went to East Africa in 1967, arriving by sea to visit his Oxford contemporary Marios Ghikas who then farmed on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. Ghikas' grandfather had been one of the first of many Greeks to settle in what was then German East Africa, yet Nyerere's policy of returning land to the watu destroyed this community. Three stayed on. Marios was one. Anticipating nationalisation, he invited Tucker to visit again to help him spend the 'last banana of his unremittable fortune'. Tucker returned in 1972, travelling overland. These were the first of 16 trips spanning 43 years that he has made to Africa. Here, he contrasts the moral force and fruits of the pioneer missionaries and explorers who brought Christianity to Africa with the triviality of modern travel and the surrealism of democracy expounded in Africa today. 288pp, UK. STACEY INTERNATIONAL.

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.

The life history of Mtoro bin Mwinyi Bakari (c.1869 - 1927), who became a Swahili lecturer and author in Germany. It explores the wider historical context of his writings, and, in particular, reconstructs the racism and discrimination in both the colonial and metropolitan contexts, features which negatively influenced his career and his life as a whole. B/w illus, 152pp, TANZANIA. MKUKI NA NYOTA PUBLISHERS.

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.

Mr. Justice Barnabas Samatta retired from the Bench in July 2007 after a distinguished legal career spanning 41 years. Of the four decades of active life, he was a State Attorney, half of which he was the Director of Public Prosecutions. For the rest of the period, he was at then bench of the High Court of Tanzania and ten years in the Court of Appeal. At his retirement, he had spent seven years as Chief Justice of the country, thus at the helm of one of the three branches of the State. This book reproduces some of the leading judgements written by Justice Samatta. It highlights, in a critical fashion, some of his beliefs and observations as embedded in his decisions and speeches. 274pp, TANZANIA. MKUKI NA NYOTA PUBLISHERS.

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.UGANDA . FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

1999 9970021532 Paperback

A compilation of oral histories by Tanzanian women living with disabilities or chronic illnesses. The narratives encourage readers to consider issues of health care, transportation, ignorance, polygamy, gender discrimination, and rural isolation. Through learning about the health challenges faced by Tanzanian women, students are introduced to the lifepaths and concerns of Tanzanian culture, the challenges faced by many developing countries, and the intimate and evocative level of detail that can only be discovered through intensive ethnographic fieldwork. 128pp, USA. LEXINGTON BOOKS.