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Theme: Six Decades of Production of Historical Knowledge at Dar es Salaam: Continuities and Change

Introduction

The Department of History at the University of Dar es salaam will turn 60 years in 2024. To mark this anniversary, the department calls for chapter contributions to explore continuities and change in the production of historical knowledge over six decades of its existence. As one of the oldest academic units at the University of Dar es Salaam, eminent historians have shaped the Department with diverse approaches to historical scholarship. Among the renowned historians who worked in the Department include Professors T.O. Ranger, Isaria N. Kimambo, Arnold J. Temu, Bonaventure Swai, Walter Rodney, John Iliffe, John Lonsdale and Abdul Sheriff. Others included; Henry Bernstein, Jacques Depelchin, Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba and Henry Slater. The audacity of probing into the African past attracted scholars from far and wide and their works contributed to the famous Dar es Salaam School. Their works had impact on the thematic and methodological underpinnings of historical scholarship in Tanzania. Although the Department distinguished itself as a centre for debates over national and international issues, there is no single volume that provides an overview of the continuities and change in the production of historical knowledge over the sixty years of its existence. This volume, therefore, attempts to fill that void.

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