Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania by

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Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid-twentieth-century Tanzanian cities. While the postcolonial Tanzanian ruling party adopted a policy of rural socialism—Ujamaa—an influx of youth migrants to the city of Dar es Salaam generated innovative forms of urbanism through the production and circulation of street archives.

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In Street Archives and City Life Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid- to late twentieth-century Tanzanian urban landscapes. While the postcolonial Tanzanian ruling party (TANU) adopted a policy of rural socialism known as Ujamaa between 1967 and 1985, an influx of youth migrants to the city of Dar es Salaam generated innovative forms of urbanism through the production and circulation of what Callaci calls street archives. These urban intellectuals neither supported nor contested the ruling party's anti-city philosophy; rather, they navigated the complexities of inhabiting unplanned African cities during economic crisis and social transformation through various forms of popular texts that included women's Christian advice literature, newspaper columns, self-published pulp fiction novellas, and song lyrics. Through these textual networks, Callaci shows how youth migrants and urban intellectuals in Dar es Salaam fashioned a collective ethos of postcolonial African citizenship. This spirit ushered in a revolution rooted in the city and its networks-an urban revolution that arose in spite of the nation-state's pro-rural ideology.

Author Biography

Emily Callaci is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  viiIntroduction  11. TANU, African Socialism, and the City Idea  182. "All Alone in the Big City": Elite Women, "Working Girls," and Struggles over Domesticity, Reproduction, and Urban Space  593. Dar after Dark: Dance, Desire, and Conspicuous Consumption in Dar es Salaam's Nightlife  1024, Lovers and Fighters: Pulp-Fiction Publishing and the Transformation of Urban Masculinity  1415. From Socialist to Street-Smart: A Changing Urban Lexicon  180Conclusion  207Notes  215Bibliography  253Index  277

Review

"A brilliant book. . . . Callaci's original approach enables readers to better understand the making of urban life beyond colonial and postcolonial cities. . . . She does this in such a way that the reader is engrossed by novelty and guided by a sense of theoretical clarity." -- Patrick Hege * H-Soz-Kult, H-Net Reviews *"Explores a variety of texts—didactic booklets aimed at young women, pulp fiction novellas, and song lyrics . . . A notable strength of the book is its treatment of these sources not only as reflective and productive of a particular moral imagination but also as inextricably entangled in the making of material gender positionalities through the material and reputational economies involved in the creation of these texts. . . . A valuable contribution to the historiography of this well-studied city [Dar es Salaam] and its inhabitants." -- Leander Schneider * American Historical Review *"Callaci has provided an excellent exploration of a crucial aspect of Tanzanian history and urban studies, and in the process, she creates a model for scholars seeking a broad understanding of African city dwellers and communities. This volume will be valuable reading for upper division students as well as graduate students and scholars in history, African Studies, post-socialist studies, urban studies, qualitative sociology, and anthropology." -- Anne S. Lewinson * International Journal of African Historical Studies *

Review Quote

"Under the revered Nyerere a peculiar dialectic was put in place: a strong villagization and thus anti-city rhetoric in the face of the persistent migration of rural dwellers into the city. This is the focal point of Emily Callaci's Street Archives and City Life , and by exploring this she gives us a distinctive account of the relation between African postcolonial socialist politics, the city of Dar, and the aspirations of the thousands of Tanzanians who flocked to the city. Callaci's book is without a doubt going to be a classic in studies of the African city."

Details ISBN0822369915 Author Emily Callaci Publisher Duke University Press Year 2017 ISBN-10 0822369915 ISBN-13 9780822369912 Format Paperback Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Illustrations 16 illustrations Series Radical Perspectives Pages 296 DEWEY 307.76096782 Publication Date 2017-11-24 Short Title Street Archives and City Life Language English UK Release Date 2017-11-24 AU Release Date 2017-11-24 NZ Release Date 2017-11-24 US Release Date 2017-11-24 Alternative 9780822369844 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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