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Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage.

Publication: African Studies Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage.(Book review)

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Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage. Laura Edmondson. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007. 175 pp.

This fascinating book adds to an ever-growing literature on contemporary identity in Tanzania, tracing the contestation of national identities and national politics through the lens of popular Dar es Salaam theatre. What is essentially a history of three performing groups--Tanzania One Theatre (TOT), Muungano Cultural Troupe and Mandela Cultural Troupe--is laced with observations about the way in which the country's transition since the collapse of ujamaa socialism has impacted upon popular understandings of politics, development and the nation.

Two themes recur through the book. The first is that, in the author's own words, 'nationalism works'. Although many of the social and political dynamics through which Tanzanian nationalism was constructed during the 1960s and 1970s have been dismantled or pulled apart, Edmondson finds that the nation is...

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