- Title Pages
- Dedication
- [UNTITLED]
- Figures and tables
- General editor's introduction
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter One From dead end to new lease of life: development in South-Eastern Tanganyika from the late 1930s to the 1950s
- Chapter Two Developing ‘Portuguese Africa’ in late colonialism: confronting discourses<sup>1</sup>
- Chapter Three A history of <i>maendeleo</i>: the concept of ‘development’ in Tanganyika's late colonial public sphere
- Chapter Four The ‘private’ face of African development planning during the Second World War<sup>1</sup>
- Chapter Five Ecological concepts of development? The case of colonial Zambia
- Chapter Six Developing rural Africa: rural development discourse in colonial Zimbabwe, 1944–79
- Chapter Seven The tractor as a tool of development? The mythologies and legacies of mechanised tropical agriculture in French Africa, 1944 –56
- Chapter Eight From precondition to goal of development: health and medicine in the planning and politics of British Tanganyika
- Chapter Nine ‘Keystone of progress’ and <i>mise en valeur d'ensemble</i>: British and French colonial discourses on education for development in the interwar period
- Chapter Ten Development and education in British colonial Nigeria, 1940–55
- Chapter Eleven Motherhood, morality, and social order: gender and development discourse and practice in late colonial Africa
- Chapter Twelve The World the Portuguese developed:<sup>1</sup> racial politics, luso-tropicalism and development discourse in late Portuguese colonialism
- Chapter Thirteen The notion of ‘développement’ in French colonial discourses: changes in discursive practices and their social implications<sup>1</sup>
- Chapter Fourteen Developing Africa in the colonial imagination: European and African narrative writing of the interwar period<sup>1</sup>
- Epilogue: taking stock, looking ahead<sup>1</sup>
- Bibliography
- Index
A history of maendeleo: the concept of ‘development’ in Tanganyika's late colonial public sphere
A history of maendeleo: the concept of ‘development’ in Tanganyika's late colonial public sphere
- Chapter:
- (p.87) Chapter Three A history of maendeleo: the concept of ‘development’ in Tanganyika's late colonial public sphere
- Source:
- Developing Africa
- Author(s):
Emma Hunter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
This chapter tells the story of the changing use of the term maendeleo in colonial Tanganyika between the turn of the century and independence in 1961. Hunter argues that it is only by appreciating the broad way in which maendeleo was understood in local contexts and the way that it served in part as a space in which to reflect on the meaning of modernity that we can make sense of its power then and now, and that the history of this keyword provides a crucial context for understanding development discourse in late colonial Tanganyika. To make this argument, she draws on a close reading of the editorial comment and letters pages of three Swahili-language newspapers – Mambo Leo, Mwafrika and the Kilimanjaro newspaper Komkya, as well as a set of district newspapers published in 1952 by district offices around Tanganyika.
Keywords: Development discourse, Maendeleo, Tanzania, Tanganyika, Swahili colonial press, Modernity
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- [UNTITLED]
- Figures and tables
- General editor's introduction
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter One From dead end to new lease of life: development in South-Eastern Tanganyika from the late 1930s to the 1950s
- Chapter Two Developing ‘Portuguese Africa’ in late colonialism: confronting discourses<sup>1</sup>
- Chapter Three A history of <i>maendeleo</i>: the concept of ‘development’ in Tanganyika's late colonial public sphere
- Chapter Four The ‘private’ face of African development planning during the Second World War<sup>1</sup>
- Chapter Five Ecological concepts of development? The case of colonial Zambia
- Chapter Six Developing rural Africa: rural development discourse in colonial Zimbabwe, 1944–79
- Chapter Seven The tractor as a tool of development? The mythologies and legacies of mechanised tropical agriculture in French Africa, 1944 –56
- Chapter Eight From precondition to goal of development: health and medicine in the planning and politics of British Tanganyika
- Chapter Nine ‘Keystone of progress’ and <i>mise en valeur d'ensemble</i>: British and French colonial discourses on education for development in the interwar period
- Chapter Ten Development and education in British colonial Nigeria, 1940–55
- Chapter Eleven Motherhood, morality, and social order: gender and development discourse and practice in late colonial Africa
- Chapter Twelve The World the Portuguese developed:<sup>1</sup> racial politics, luso-tropicalism and development discourse in late Portuguese colonialism
- Chapter Thirteen The notion of ‘développement’ in French colonial discourses: changes in discursive practices and their social implications<sup>1</sup>
- Chapter Fourteen Developing Africa in the colonial imagination: European and African narrative writing of the interwar period<sup>1</sup>
- Epilogue: taking stock, looking ahead<sup>1</sup>
- Bibliography
- Index
