This volume reexamines the Maji Maji war of 1905-07 in Tanzania, the largest African rebellion against European colonialism. Contributors provide histories of previously neglected localities and groups, and new insight into the use of protective medicines believed to provide invulnerability.
Author(s): James Giblin, Jamie Monson
Series: African Social Studies: 20
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 340
Contents
Maps, Plates, Figures and Tables
Editor's Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
Section One Contexts of Communication
Chapter One War of Words: The Narrative Efficacy of Medicine in the Maji Maji War
Chapter Two The Ngindo: Exploring the Center of the Maji Maji Rebellion
Section Two Straddling Boundaries
Chapter Three The War of the Hunters: Maji Maji and the Decline of the Ivory Trade
Chapter Four “All People were Barbarians to the Askari . . .”: Askari Identity and Honor in the Maji Maji War, 1905–1907
Section Three At the Apex of Violence: Maji Maji in Songea
Chapter Five “Deadly Silence Predominates in this District” The Maji Maji War and Its Aftermath in Ungoni
Chapter Six Reexamining the Maji Maji War in Ungoni With a Blend of Archaeology and Oral History
Section Four Remembering the Complexity of Maji Maji in Njombe
Chapter Seven Were the Bena Traitors?: Maji Maji in Njombe and the Context of Local Alliances Made by the Germans
Chapter Eight Taking Oral Sources Beyond the Documentary Record of Maji Maji: The Example of the “War of Korosani” at Yakobi, Njombe
Section Five The Aftermath: Memory and Underdevelopment
Chapter Nine Sudden Disaster and Slow Change: Maji Maji and the Long-Term History of Southeast Tanzania
Index
