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Item A Biographical and Historiographical Sketch of Walter Rodney(Makerere Historical Journal, 1989) Lawi, Yusufu Q.Item A Biographical-Historiographical Note of Walter Rodney(Makerere Historical Journal, 1989) Lawi, Yusufu Q.Item Changes and Continuities in Local Articulations of Life, Illness and Healing in Rural Tanzania: A case Study of the Iraqw of North Central Tanzania(Journal of Population Studies and Development, 2008) Lawi, Yusufu Q.Item Changing Policies and their Influence on Government Health Workers in Tanzania 1967-2009: Perspectives from Rural Mbulu District”, The International Journal of African Historical Studies(The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2013) Lawi, Yusufu Q.; Bech, M.; Rekdal, O.; Massay, D.Tanzania has experienced fundamental policy shifts during the last fifty years. This included experimentation with reforms based on socialism and neoliberalism, and involved powerful actors. Public health services have been one of the main targets for policy and structural reforms, and personnel at the local level have had to cope with new measures under changing regimes. This article explores the public health services in Tanzania mainland from 1967 to 2009 from a health worker perspective. How did shifting policies influence government health workers in their daily work, and how did they perceive and respond to the policies? Oral narratives were collected mainly in rural Mbulu District, north central Tanzania. We argue that top-down experiments undertaken by development experts and politicians on the national and global arena during the socialist period (1967-1985) and the neoliberalist period (1986 to the present) had both intended and unintended outcomes. The experiences of the government health workers in this study provide a historical background to understand some of the present challenges in the public health sector in TanzaniaItem Dar es Salaam: Histories from an Emerging African Metropolis(Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, The British Institute in Eastern Africa, 2007) Burton, A.; Brennan, J.; Lawi, Yusufu Q.From its modest beginnings in the mid-19th century, Dar es Salaam has grown to become one of sub-Saharan Africa's most important urban centres. A major political, economic and cultural hub, the city stood at the cutting edge of trends that transformed twentieth-century East Africa. Dar es Salaam has recently attracted the attention of a diverse, multi-disciplinary, range of scholars, making it currently one of the continent's most studied urban centres. This collection from eleven scholars from Africa, Europe, North America and Japan, draws on some of the best of this scholarship and offers a comprehensive, and accessible, survey of the city's development. The perspectives include history, musicology, ethnomusicology, culture including popular culture, land and urban economics. The opening chapter offers a comprehensive overview of the history of the city. Subsequent chapters examine Dar es Salaam's twentieth century experience through the prism of social change and the administrative repercussions of rapid urbanization; and through popular culture and shifting social relations. The book will be of interest not only to the specialist in urban studies but also to the general reader with an interest in Dar es Salaam's environmental, social and cultural history. James Brennan is a Lecturer in History at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London. His research interests include nationalism and urbanization in Tanzania, and he is currently researching the historical role of radio and other mass media in East Africa's political culture. Andrew Burton is an Honorary Research Fellow of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, based in Addis Ababa. He has published widely on East African urban culture; and his current interests are the history of youth, urbanization and delinquency in Eastern Africa. Yusuf Lawi is the former Head of the Department of History at the University of Dar es Salaam; and is currently Senior Lecturer in History and Deputy Director of the University's Centre for Continuing Education. He specializes in environmental and social historyItem Gender, Generation and Communication in Times of AIDS(University of Dar es Salaam, 2003) Rekdal, O.; Lawi, Yusufu Q.Item History of Diseases and Healing in Africa(University of Dar es Salaam, 2004) Lawi, Yusufu Q.; Mapunda, B.Item The Idea of ‘University(Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 2008) Lawi, Yusufu Q.Item In Search of Relevance: A History of the University of Dar es Salaam(University of Dar es Salaam Press, 2008) Kimambo, I.; Mapunda, B.; Lawi, Yusufu Q.Item Indigenous Religions in Contemporary Tanzania(E & D LTD, 2005) Lawi, Yusufu Q.; Massanja, P.Item Indigenous Religions in Tanzania(E & D LTD, 2006) Lawi, Yusufu Q.; Massanja, P.Item Justice Administration Outside of the Ordinary Courts of Law in Mainland Tanzania: The Case of Ward Tribunals in Babati District(African Studies Quarterly, 1997) Lawi, Yusufu Q.Since colonial days, justice administration in what is now mainland Tanzania, has invariably involved arbitral procedures alongside the more court-based litigation process. The British colonial government in Tanzania (then Tanganyika) systematized and put in place a system of customary arbitration which, although distinct, formed part of the colonial legal system. At first the post-colonial state adopted this system without any alteration, but in 1969 a statutory provision was made for the creation of a more formal and village-based structure known as the Arbitration Tribunals (1969). In 1985, a parliament Act (no. 7 of 1985) replaced these with more formalized and regularized organs called the Ward Tribunals. In contrast to the Arbitration Tribunals, the latter organs are based in wards and are meant to function under the overall control of the district-based local government authorities.Item Modernization and the De-harmonization of Man-Nature Relationship: The Case Study of the Old Mbulu District(1992) Lawi, Yusufu Q.The process of modernization of the Iraqw peasantry of Babati, Hanan'g and Mbulu Districts of Tanzania during 1960-90 is examined. Modernization has led to apparent changes in the way the traditionally agro-pastoralist Iraqw perceive the relationship between themselves and their physical environment. The expansion of commercial cropping of wheat, maize and beans since the 1970s has led to land and soil degradation. Environmental degradation and other man-made ecological problems are related to the contemporary economic mode, namely the pursuit of profit.Item Operation Vijiji and Local Ecological Consciousness: The case of Eastern Iraqw land, (1974-1976)(Journal of African History, 2007) Lawi, Yusufu Q.Tanzania's Ujamaa villagization campaign of 1973–6 was one of the greatest social experiments in postcolonial Africa. Occurring during a time of continuing hope for a better future for the nation, the experiment aimed to improve the lives of the majority of rural Tanzanians. Despite this noble intention, the attempt at rural modernization failed miserably in many respects. Discussions of these failures have tended to give prominence to tangible explanations, ignoring more nuanced and qualitative issues, including environmental concerns based on local cosmologies. In an attempt to fill this gap, the present article uses a case study of eastern Iraqwland in northern Tanzania to explore local articulations of the compulsory villagization campaign and to interpret them in light of ecological perspectives that were prevalent at the time in Iraqw village communities.Item Present Conjuncture: The University of Dar es Salaam at the Beginning of the 21st Century(Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 2008) Lawi, Yusufu Q.Item Pros and Cons of Patriotism in the Teaching of the ‘Maji Maji War’ in Tanzania Schools(Tanzania Zamani, 2009) Lawi, Yusufu Q.Item Rational Myths and Mythical Rationalities in Rural Articulations of Illness: A theoretical overview and case study of Mbulu-Hanang, northern Tanzania, Circa 1900 to the Present(University of Dar es Salaam, 2005) Lawi, Yusufu Q.That local narratives and oral discourses constitute important source materials for the reconstruction of histories of illness and healing in rural Africa is a widely accepted fact. What continues to attract much discussion in the humanities and social sciences, however, is the question of how such narratives relate to the reality they articulate, and whether knowledge implied in popular oral articulations generally has any efficacy to talk of. These concerns are by no means new. Yet their relevance persists, partly because of the need to continue the battle for theoretical clarity and partly because the varying positions in the debate have profound policy implications