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Item Kyamutwara(1971) Kaijage, Frederick J.Item Labouring Barnsley, 1816-1856: a Social and Economic History(1975) Kaijage, Frederick J.In the closing years of the 18th century, as linen weaving was displaced by cotton in many English towns, the industry took refuge in a few localities, one of which was the township of Barnsley. The Barnsley linen industry expanded in the first three decades of the 19th century and attracted a large immigrant labour force. But owing to competition from cotton and from linen produced in Ireland and Scotland, the town's linen trade began to decline. By the mid-1850's, it was no longer the staple industry. Coal had replaced it. This study examines the social and economic structure of Barnsley during its rapid urbanization. By employing statistical sources traditionally neglected by historians, it goes beyond other social and economic histories of the period. The problems of the Bnglish linen trade, whose history has never been written, are discussed. The plight of the linen weavers who suffered from chronic unemployment, declining wages and bad living conditions, is compared and contrasted with the position of the coal miners, whose industry, in the last years of our period, enjoyed prosperity. The industrial militancy of the weavers, who persistently tried to resist wage reductions, contrasted with the relative docility of the miners. Barnsley played a prominent role in radicalism, Chartism and other working-class movements of the early 19th century. This thesis aims to relate these developments to the community in which they took place. The class-consciousness of the Barnsley workers had marry roots: the peculiar problems of the linen trade; the oligarchic nature of its parochial institutions, dominated by employers; and the influence of its immigrant population. The ideas which interacted with these forces are also discussed.Item Some Problems of Child-Rearing In Tanzania: A Contribution to the International Year of the Child (Iyc)(1979) Mlama, Penina O.This paper discusses the history of child-upbringing practices in Tanzania and how these have changed with the historical changes that the country has undergone. After a look at the pre-colonial societies where child-upbringing was a collective responsibility of the society, the paper shows how this pattern changed with urbanization and individualisation of society through colonial days to the present. The author comes to the conclusion that the breakdown of that collective child-upbringing is at the root of the social problems that face the children, and that it also has laid unnecessary burdens on the biological parents She poses the question as to whether there is anything that can be done to restore this collective responsibility, even though it will not be in its original form. But the author also notes that no substantial changes can be made to the existing situation without altering the socio-economic conditions in the society at large. Notes.Item The Noun Class System and Agreement in Chindali(1981) Swilla, Imani N.Item Digubi: A Tanzanian Indigenous Theatre Form(1981) Mlama, Penina O.Item Labor Conditions in the Tanzanian Mining Industry, 1930-1960(1983) Kaijage, Frederick J.Item Peasant Resistance to Proletarianization in Colonial Tanzania(African Studies Center, 1983) Kaijage, Frederick J.Item The Performing Arts And Development(1985) Lihamba, AmandinaThis paper tries to link two dynamic processes which exhibit a dialectical relationship. Development means changes, a re-alignment of forces to improve man's lot and enable him to come to full realisation of himself. It aims at his total freedom through the exploitation of his powers and potential, a historical process which is economic, political and cultural. All man's activities are manifestations of growth or retardation within the process of development. The perfoming arts, dance, mu&ic and theatre, are cultural activities which contribute towards and at the same time manifest socio-economic development. These are social historical phenomena which embody man's expressive capacity at each moment of his development. An understanding of the proper role of the performing arts, therefore, calls for an analysis of these elements not only as political and ideological phenomena but as aesthetic processes as well.Item Tanzania's Cultural Policy and its Implications for the Contribution of the arts to Socialist Development(1985) Mlama, Penina O.Art has always been an important tool for man's socio-economic development. Man of the pre-scie'ftific age, for instance, discovered how to use dance and music, as well as masks, in rituals that he hoped would bring rain and improve his crops or game.1 Art was, to him, an effective medium of communication with the supernatural powers which he believed controlled some aspects of his well-beingItem Health and The African Theatre(1986) Lihamba, AmandinaThis article explores the representation in performance and theatre of three contrasting approaches to our understanding of disease causality -- explanations that invoke material and non-material forces in a traditional cosmology where all phenomena are interrelated, contemporary biomedical explanations that situate causation in material forces alone and that isolate individual responsibility, and socialist explanations that seek underlying economic and political causes of community ill health. Written by an active performer, the article is based on her observation of workshops and performances, on interviews, published and unpublished reports, and an analysis of contemporary plays by Soyinka, Hussein and Muhando. Different approaches to health, disease and cure are reflected in different infrastructures created to deal with them, which are informed by political, economic and social structures and attitudes. These attitudes and structures find expression within general culture and within specific cultural expressions such as theatre. This paper looks at attitudes towards health, disease and cure manifested in traditional and contemporary African performances. It is argued that traditional performances reveal attitudes that arise from an understanding of interrelationships among universal phenomena, whereas most contemporary theatre carries attitudes that have a limited socio-political framework or that remain symbolic representations of interrelationships.Item The Role of the British Capital in the Formation of the Trans-South African State(1987) Lawi, Yusufu Q.Item A Biographical and Historiographical Sketch of Walter Rodney(Makerere Historical Journal, 1989) Lawi, Yusufu Q.Item The AIDS Crisis in the Kagera Region, Tanzania, from an Historical Perspective(1989) Kaijage, Frederick J.Item A Biographical-Historiographical Note of Walter Rodney(Makerere Historical Journal, 1989) Lawi, Yusufu Q.Item The Communication Skills Unit and the Language Problem at the University of Dar Es Salaam(1990) Rugemalira, Josephat M.Item The English Language Support Project in Tanzania(1990) Lwaitama, A. F.; Rugemalira, Josephat M.Item Reflections on Recent Developments in Language Policy in Tanzania(1990) Rugemalira, Josephat M.; Rubagumya, Casmir M.; Kapinga, M. K.; Lwaitama, A. F.; Tetlow, J. G.Item Living sites at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania? Preliminary landscape archaeology results in the basal Bed II lake margin zone(Journal of Human Evolution, 1991) Blumenschine, Robert J.; Masao, Fidelis T.