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Practicing History in Central Tanzania: Writing, Memory, and Performance. Gregory H. Maddox with Ernest M. Kongola. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2006. 178 pp.
Gregory Maddox's book, Practicing History in Central Tanzania, is good example of a new genre of African history that takes as its subject African public (popular, amateur or local) historians, sometimes called ethnohistorians, who write the histories of their own people for a family, local community and/or national audience. This inquiry is more interested in why and how people write history rather than the historical content itself. It seeks to historicize the practice of history in Africa by demonstrating how the post-colonial African context influences the relationship of the present to the past. With books like Maddox's, Africanist scholars are now beginning to construct an African historiography that honors historians not trained in the academy.
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