ABSTRACT

The study o f African history as an academic discipline is a rather new field and one that still has its detractors both w ithin and outside academics. This collection o f articles highlights for students and scholars the modern era in African history. It brings together published research on the colonial era in Africa, an era relatively brief but one that saw
dramatic change in African societies.

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Nationalist Historians in Search of a Nation

The 'New Historiography' in Dar Es Salaam