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In Performance and Politics in Tanzania, Laura Edmondson examines how politics, social values, and gender are expressed on stage. Now a disappearing tradition,

Since its founding in 1964, the United Republic of Tanzania has used music, dance, and other cultural productions as ways of imagining and legitimizing the new

Explores how performance arts, whether staged or in daily life, regularly interface with political action across the African continent

Full parliamentary democracy did not come quickly or easily to Tanzania. In 1962, the first constitution of Tanzania as an independent republic shifted power fr

This study, the first book-length treatment of its subject, draws on a large base of elusive material and on extensive field research. It is the result of the a