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Andrea Azizi Kifyasi

Andrea Azizi Kifyasi

Senior Lecturer

College of Humanities

History

Biography

Andrea Azizi Kifyasi is a Senior Lecturer and researcher at the Department of History, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He holds a BA in Education and an MA in History from the University of Dar es Salaam, an MA in Chinese Studies from Zhejiang University, China, and a PhD in History from the University of Basel, Switzerland. Kifyasi’s main research area is China-Africa relations, specifically on China’s medical aid to post-colonial African countries. Other research areas include medical history, global health, development aid, and Cold War politics. 

Research Interest

  • Medical History
  • Cold War History
  • Global Health
  • China-Africa Relations
  • Development Aid
  • Forestry History

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Projects

  • Bringing Research to Impact for Global Health at Tsinghua (BRIGHT) Grant awardee. A research fund from Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University, to support a research project titled “Together We Can”: Collaborations Between Government and Non-Governmental Organisations in Providing Health Care Services to People Living with HIV in Iringa Region, Tanzania, 1980s-2022, for the period from October 2023 to September 2024.

Publications

  • Maxmillian Julius Chuhila and Andrea Azizi Kifyasi, “Green Imperialism: Cinchona and the Biomedical Campaigns in Colonial Tanganyika, ca.1900s,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 57, no. 2 (2024): 185-208.
  • Andrea Azizi Kifyasi, “On the Cover: Showcasing China’s On-the-Job Training in Rural Africa.” Technology and Culture 65, no. 1 (2024): 1-5. 

 https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2024.a920513.

  • Andrea Azizi Kifyasi, “How Effective Was the Global South Knowledge Exchange? The Chinese-Funded Medical Projects in Tanzania, 1968–1990s.” Technology and Culture 65, no. 1 (2024): 39-61. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2024.a920515.
  • Andrea Azizi Kifyasi, “China – Tanzania Relations and the Untapped Potentials,” Tanzania–Network.de e.V. | HABARI 03/2023: 37-39.
  • Andrea Azizi Kifyasi, “Exploitation Paradox: Sao-Hill Forest Plantation and the Indigenous Community Livelihoods in Mufindi, Tanzania, 1970s to 2010,” Tanzania Zamani: A Journal of Historical Research and Writing Xiii, no. 2 (2021): 147-180.

https://doi.org/10.56279/tza20211326.

  • Andrea Azizi Kifyasi, “Communist China’s Medical Assistance versus Nationalist China’s Agricultural Aid to Africa and the Politics of Recognition, 1961-1971,” in Africa-China-Taiwan Relations, 1949-2020, ed. Sabella Ogbobode Abidde (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022) 219-241. See Africa-China-Taiwan Relations, 1949–2020 - 9781793649669 (rowman.com).
  • Andrea Azizi Kifyasi, “China’s Role in Global Health: HIV/AIDS Traditional Chinese Medicine Research and Treatment in Tanzania from 1987 to 2014,” China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3, (2021): 243–267. 

https://doi.org/10.1142/s237774002150010x.

  • Andrea Azizi Kifyasi, “Neither Saviour nor Exploiter: A Historical Study of China’s Medical Assistance in Post-Colonial Tanzania.” PhD Dissertation University of Basel, 2021. https://edoc.unibas.ch/83588/.
  • Maxmillian J. Chuhila and Andrea A. Kifyasi, “A Development Narrative of a Rural Economy: The Politics of Forest Plantations and Land Use in Mufindi and Kilimanjaro, Tanzania; 1920s to 2000s.” International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research Vol. 4, Issue 3, pp: (528-538), month: July – September 2016, ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online), Available at www.researchpublish.com
  • Andrea Azizi Kifyasi, “The Goals of China-Africa Medical Cooperation: A Case Study of Tanzania, 1960s-2010.” Masters Dissertation, Zhejiang University, July 2016.
  • Andrea Azizi Kifyasi, “Sao Hill Forest Plantation and Local Communities’ Livelihoods in Mufindi, 1960s-2010.” Master Dissertation, University of Dar es Salaam. November 2015.