What is it about?

The paper focuses on the community-based socio-political struggles for urban citizenship in late colonial Mwanza, Tanzania. It shows how residents used leisure activities partly provided by the British authorities, and shaped their own modern identities.

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Why is it important?

This paper is important mostly because Mwanza is an understudied urban space.

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In my view, this paper shows in a vivid way the exciting social dynamics of a secondary urban space which has been neglected by scholars.

Dr Maria Suriano
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

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This page is a summary of: Popular music, identity and politics in a colonial urban space: The case of Mwanza, Tanzania (1945-1961), January 2009, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004162648.i-308.78.
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