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Kitabu hiki kimezungumza kuhusu kitabu cha Dr. Harith Ghassany, ''Kwaheri Ukoloni Kwaheri Uhuru,'' (2010) na kitabu cha Mwandishi, ''The Life and Times of Abdulwahid Sykes (1924 - 1968) The Untold Story of the Muslim Struggle Against British Colonialism, '' (1998) (baadhi ya kurasa zimewekwa) pamoja na mambo mengi mengine yanayomuhusu Mwalimu Nyerere.
Madame, Monsieur,
S.E. Madame Malika BERAK, Ambassadrice de France en Tanzanie, a le plaisir de vous inviter au débat de haut niveau sur le thème « Ecrire l’Histoire : réalités et perceptions” qui aura lieu le jeudi 21 avril 2016 à 18 h à l’Alliance Française de Dar es Salam.
Partant du constat que certains éléments de l’histoire sont soulignés, d’autres ignorés ou simplement racontés différemment, ce débat s’intéressera aux manières dont l’Histoire peut être utilisée et présentée dans différents systèmes éducatifs.
Le panel sera composé de M. Walter Bgoya, fondateur et directeur de la maison d’édition Mkuki na Nyota, M. Chambi Chachage, étudiant doctorant en histoire à l’université de Harvard, Mme Sophie Dulucq, professeure d’histoire moderne à l’Université de Toulouse, et Dr. Marie-Aude Fouéré, enseignante à l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). M. Gwamaka Kifukwe, coordinateur des programmes à l’institut Uongozi, modèrera le débat.
Le débat sera en anglais.
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Dear Madam, Sir,
H.E. Mrs. Malika Berak, Ambassador of France to Tanzania, is pleased to invite you to a high level debate on “Writing History: reality and misperceptions” , to take place on Thursday, April 21st at 18:00 at the Alliance Française of Dar es Salaam.
Some elements of history are emphasized; others ignored or just mentioned differently. This debate will look into the ways History can be used and how it is presented in different education systems.
The panel will be composed of M. Walter Bgoya, Founder and Managing Director of the publishing house Mkuki na Nyota, M. Chambi Chachage, PhD student in history at Harvard University, Ms. Sophie Dulucq, professor of Modern History at the University of Toulouse, and Dr. Marie-Aude Fouéré, senior lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). The debate will be moderated by M. Gwamaka Kifukwe, programme coordinator at Uongozi institute.
The debate will be in English.
AMBASSADE DE FRANCE EN TANZANIE
Débat “Writing History: reality and misperceptions”
Thursday 21st of April 2016 at 6:00pm
Alliance Française de Dar Es Salaam
Biographies des intervenants et du modérateur
Speakers’ and moderator’s biographies
Speakers:
Walter Bgoya
Walter Bgoya is a Tanzanian publisher, a children’s book author, founder and managing director of Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, an independent scholarly publishing company in Dar es Salaam as well as the chairman of the international African Books Collective.
From 1972 to 1990, he was the General Manager of the Tanzania Publishing House (TPH), which contributed to the literature that distinguished Dar es Salaam, internationally, as a centre with a fervent progressive and radical intellectual life. He is also a founding member of the African Publishers Network and was Chairperson of the jury for the NOMA Award for Publishing in Africa for 15 years until it closed in 2009. He has delivered numerous papers on the themes of reading, writing, publishing and the quest for an authentic African voice in the literary world. He also actively translates literature into Kiswahili, including books like The Little Prince from the original French.
Chambi Chachage
Chambi Chachage (Udadisi) is a PhD candidate in African Studies with a primary field in History at Harvard University. His dissertation, Capitalizing Cities: The Emergence of Entrepreneurial Elites in African Commercial Capitals and the Growth of Black Business in the Global Economy, provides an historical account of the emergence of entrepreneurial elites as a social class in Africa. Together with Annar Cassam, he is the editor of Africa’s Liberation: The Legacy of Nyerere and a blogger at Udadisi: Rethinking in Action.
Sophie Dulucq
Sophie Dulucq is a professor of modern history at the University of Toulouse, where she teaches African colonial history, and historiography.
Among other publications, she is the author of: Écrire l’histoire de l’Afrique à l’époque coloniale (xixe- xxe siècles), Paris, Karthala, 2009, and more recently: Enseigner les colonisations et les décolonisations (xvie – xxe siècle), Créteil, Canopé, 2016 (in collaboration with Marie-Albane de Suremain and David Lambert). Her recent research has focused on the development of tourism in French colonial Africa. She is currently working on the judicial repression of ‘cannibalism’ in French colonies.
Marie-Aude Fouéré
Dr. Marie-Aude Fouéré is a social and political anthropologist. She now works as a senior lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France. She was Deputy Director of the French Institute for Research in Africa in Nairobi for 3 years (2011-2014). She has experience in the field of culture and development, as she worked at the UNESCO office in Dar es Salaam for several years, notably on refugee issues and cultural heritage in Tanzania and the Indian Ocean.
Her PhD research (2000-2004) was about ‘inter-ethnic joking relationships’ in Tanzania (utani wa jadi in Kiswahili), which she published in French in 2008. Currently, her main themes of research are racial and ethnic identities, citizenship and belonging, collective memories, and national imaginaries in Tanzania. Within this framework, she is conducting two research projects. One is concerned with the ways former President Julius Nyerere is remembered in contemporary Tanzania and how his varied memories are used in today’s political life. Her second research project deals with the contemporary memories of the 1964 Revolution and the early post-revolutionary years in Zanzibar. In 2015, she published with Mkuki na Nyota the edited volume Remembering Julius Nyerere in Tanzania: History, Memory, Legacy.
Moderator:
Gwamaka Kifukwe
Gwamaka Kifukwe is a Tanzanian civil servant working at the Institute of African Leadership for Sustainable Development (UONGOZI Institute) based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He recently took up the position of Programme Coordinator (Sustainable Development, after working as a researcher since joining in 2012. His primary responsibility is the coordination the Institute’s multi-year programme to develop leadership in Africa to appreciate and implement sustainable development and to support implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa. Among his responsibilities are the ‘Meet the Leader’ and 'In Focus' TV interview shows, for which he is the host.
He was invited to join the World Economic Forum’s ‘Global Shapers Community’ in 2013 as a member of the Dar es Salaam Hub where he served as Curator for 2013/14 and is still a member. In 2014, he was selected as one of the five hundred inaugural Mandela-Washington Fellows (Public Management Track) from across Africa as part of President Barack Obama's Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). In 2015, he was selected for the University of Cape Town's Young African Leaders Programme ('Leading in Public Life'), returning in 2016 as a speaker. He has a PhD in geography from the University of Nottingham.
