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SAMWEL S. MHAJIDA

Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Political Science and Development Studies, Dar Es Salaam University College Of Education
Education:

University of Goettingen, Germany, PhD (Social and Cultural Anthropology), 2017 University of Dar es Salaam, MA in History University of Dar es Salaam, BA(ED), Bachelor of Arts with Education, 2004

Teaching:

  • Philosophy of History
  • Ethnicity and Gender History
  • Regional histories of Africa
  • Themes in African History
  • Economic History of Tanzania
  • Theory of History
  • Environmental History

Research:

  • Ethnic history of Tanzania (History of the Datoga and Mbugwe of Tanzania).
  • Urbanization and the impact of informal economy on the urban youth
  • Gender history and Christianity
  • History of the youth movements

Publications:

1. Lal (PhD) and Samwel Mhajida, “Reviving Student Activism at the Hill”, in the Codesria, Journal of Review of Books (ERB), March 2012

2. Samwel Mhajida, The collapse of a pastoral economy: The Datoga of central and northern Tanzania, 1830s – 2000s, Goettingen University Press, vol. 15, 2019 ISBN 978-3-86395-401-7.

3.  Samwel Mhajida, “The Contempt of Private Property: The Datooga Salt Fracas and the Resistance against Colonial Definition of Private Property in Central Tanzania (1923– 1927), in: ETHNOLOGIA ACTUALIS, vol. 19, No. 1/2019, pp. 36-53.

 4. Samwel Mhajida “Historicizing Zionism from Gospel songs in East Africa, late 1980s to the Present” in: Cynthia H. Rich (ed.), African Christian Zionism, Maryland, Lexington Books. pp 1-16.

5. Samwel Mhajida " The border lies  her and beyond: Datoga Land Claims in British Northern Tanzania, 1916 to 1950s" Zeitchriff fuer Agrargescichte und Agrarsaoziologie Jargang. 69 (2021), hEFT 2, PP, 43-63.