UtafitiPub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1163/26836408-15020084
Neema Eliphas Laizer
{"title":"Rehearsing Genealogies of Violence","authors":"Neema Eliphas Laizer","doi":"10.1163/26836408-15020084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26836408-15020084","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Frank Coates’s contemporary popular romance novel, Tears of the Maasai (2004) is an excellent terrain to explore the trials of violence sustained through the imposed cartography, disease, and cultural exoticization of the Maasai resulting from contacts between the African Savanna and nineteenth century British colonialism. Mary-Louise Pratt’s concept of ‘contact zones’ illuminates the abuses endemic to these asymmetrical British-Maasai encounters, exhibiting how colonial stereotypes continue to infuse contemporary literary representations of ‘Maasainess’. Using Rob Nixon’s concept of ‘slow violence’ I demonstrate the ways in which the damage first imposed through the Maasai-British colonial contacts gets sustained today, as is evident in the grammar through which ‘Maasainess’ continues to be narrated, contributing to the contemporary predicaments of the Maasai. Thus I argue that the continuation of slow violence is perpetuated and enhanced through today’s exoticization, cultural tourism and appropriation.","PeriodicalId":85828,"journal":{"name":"Utafiti","volume":"19 13","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135874590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UtafitiPub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1163/26836408-15020081
Jonathan M. Jackson, Francis Ching’ota
{"title":"Maono ya Bonde la Kilombero, Tanzania","authors":"Jonathan M. Jackson, Francis Ching’ota","doi":"10.1163/26836408-15020081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26836408-15020081","url":null,"abstract":"Ikisiri Makala hii inaangazia historia ya maendeleo ya bonde la Kilombero na hasa, dira juu ya maendeleo ya bonde hili lililoko kusini-kati mwa Tanzania. Tangu kipindi cha mwanzo cha ukoloni, bonde lilisifiwa kuwa na rutuba ya kutosha na mipango mingi iliandaliwa kuitumia rutuba hiyo kwa uzalishaji mazao. Matumizi ya ardhi hii yalitarajiwa kuleta mageuzi makubwa vijijini na kuboresha maisha ya watu. Ili kuelewa vyema dhima na umuhimu wa mipango ya awali juu ya bonde la Kilombero, makala hii inaangazia historia ya maendeleo kupitia mipango ya siku za nyuma ili kuona namna mipango hiyo ilivyosaidia maendeleo ya sasa na siku zijazo. Dhamira kuu nne za historia ya maendeleo zimeainishwa na kujadiliwa. Dhamira hizo ni: uimarishaji wa kilimo; udhibiti wa ikolojia; miundombinu; na makazi. Makala hii inaleta mtazamo mpya kuhusu Kilombero, lakini mtazamo huo unaweza kutumiwa katika historia ya maendeleo ya mahali popote nchini Tanzania.","PeriodicalId":85828,"journal":{"name":"Utafiti","volume":"19 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135874593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UtafitiPub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1163/26836408-15020086
Herbert Hambati
{"title":"Commons in an Age of Uncertainty – Decolonizing Nature, Economy, and Society, written by Franklin Obeng-Odoom","authors":"Herbert Hambati","doi":"10.1163/26836408-15020086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26836408-15020086","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85828,"journal":{"name":"Utafiti","volume":"19 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135874598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UtafitiPub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1163/26836408-15020080
Felix A. Chami, Valence Valerian Silayo
{"title":"Neolithic and Early Iron Age Settlements of Mount Kilimanjaro’s Southern Slopes","authors":"Felix A. Chami, Valence Valerian Silayo","doi":"10.1163/26836408-15020080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26836408-15020080","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Some received theories argue that the modern Chagga people of Mount Kilimanjaro are recent immigrants; however the findings assembled here suggest otherwise. Archaeological surveys and excavations conducted on the southern slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro have revealed sites of the Early Iron Age ( E.I.A. ) and the Neolithic period. Thus archaeological analyses demonstrate that the Chagga, as Bantu speakers, are of cultural and genetic affiliation to E.I.A. and the Neolithic people, as has been found in many other parts of East Africa. The ceramic findings detailed here indicate that modern Chagga people living on these sites share a cultural continuity and genetic affinity with human settlements on Kilimanjaro established in prehistory.","PeriodicalId":85828,"journal":{"name":"Utafiti","volume":"19 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135874596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UtafitiPub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1163/26836408-15020083
Mjege Kinyota
{"title":"Promoting Functional Scientific Literacy in Tanzania: A Critique of Current Basic Education Policy","authors":"Mjege Kinyota","doi":"10.1163/26836408-15020083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26836408-15020083","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Functional Scientific Literacy ( FSL ) is widely acknowledged for its contribution to benefiting a society by ensuring every citizen understands something about science. But there is a debate throughout Tanzania and beyond which concerns curriculum policy, in the interest of affording citizens freedom of choice; e.g. in Tanzania students who do not choose a science stream are permitted to excise themselves from science education entirely by dropping Physics and Chemistry two years before completing their basic education. I argue that such a curriculum policy carries tremendous implications for the country, undermining the declared national ideal of promoting social and technological development for all. Further, the policy is not coherent: why should Physics and Chemistry be dropped while Biology and Mathematics are retained? How might FSL learning experiences be reorganised to recoup the potential value that are lost as a result of dropping some of these subjects?","PeriodicalId":85828,"journal":{"name":"Utafiti","volume":"19 15","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135874588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UtafitiPub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1163/26836408-15020085
Rehema Stephano
{"title":"Mapokezi ya Nomino za Kiswahili katika Ngeli za Nomino za Gᴉrᴉmi","authors":"Rehema Stephano","doi":"10.1163/26836408-15020085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26836408-15020085","url":null,"abstract":"Ikisiri Lengo la makala hii ni kuonesha jinsi nomino za Kiswahili zinavyokopwa ili kukidhi mawasiliano katika Gᴉrᴉmi. Nomino (majina) ni miongoni mwa maneno yanayokopwa kutokana na umuhimu wake mkubwa katika lugha na mawasiliano kwa ujumla. Umuhimu huo ni kutambulisha watu, vitu, hali na mahali. Gᴉrᴉmi, kutokana na utangamano wake na Kiswahili, kinakopa na kutohoa nomino tofauti kwa lengo la kukidhi mawasiliano kulingana na wakati na mazingira ya kiuchumi, kisiasa, kiutamaduni na kijamii yanayoikabili lugha hiyo. Uchambuzi matini na usaili vimeonesha kwamba nomino za Kiswahili zinazokopwa na kupokelewa katika Gᴉrᴉmi ni za ngeli nane ambazo ni MU -/ WA -; MU -/ MI -; JI -, Ø-/ MA -; KI -/ VI -; N-/N-; U-/N-; U -/ MA -; na KU -, ambapo maumbo ya umoja na wingi, pamoja na sauti huchakatwa kulingana na mfumo lugha wa Gᴉrᴉmi. Hata hivyo, maana ya nomino inayokopwa hubaki ileile kama ilivyo katika lugha iliyokopesha. Kwa hiyo, inapendekezwa uchambuzi wowote wa mapokezi ya maneno uende sambamba na mfumo wa lugha inayokopa.","PeriodicalId":85828,"journal":{"name":"Utafiti","volume":"19 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135874591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UtafitiPub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1163/26836408-15020087
Dominicus Zimanimoto Makukula
{"title":"About Sacred and Religious Art in Africa: An Ethnographic Study on a Private Collection, written by Alexis Bekyane Tengan","authors":"Dominicus Zimanimoto Makukula","doi":"10.1163/26836408-15020087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26836408-15020087","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85828,"journal":{"name":"Utafiti","volume":"19 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135874597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UtafitiPub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1163/26836408-15020089
Bernhard Weiss
{"title":"Righteous Anger: Celebrating the Anti-racist Activism of Sir Michael and Ann Dummett, written by New College Library and Archives","authors":"Bernhard Weiss","doi":"10.1163/26836408-15020089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26836408-15020089","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85828,"journal":{"name":"Utafiti","volume":"19 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135874594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UtafitiPub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1163/26836408-15020088
Justin Sands
{"title":"Reading Wiredu, written by Barry Hallen","authors":"Justin Sands","doi":"10.1163/26836408-15020088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26836408-15020088","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85828,"journal":{"name":"Utafiti","volume":"19 14","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135874589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UtafitiPub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1163/26836408-15020082
Ivan B. Kivinge
{"title":"Understanding Environmental Destruction as a Human Rights Violation","authors":"Ivan B. Kivinge","doi":"10.1163/26836408-15020082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26836408-15020082","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The environment is very important for the integrity of human personhood because humans are living beings in the world. Pope Francis refers to the world as our common home since it hosts human beings and other creatures. However, despite its importance to human life, the environment undergoes constant destruction through various human activities; and environmental degradation has implications that cut across individual human and collective rights. The right to life which allows humans to exercise other rights is under attack since life is supported by the environment as it provides life’s necessities including food, water and fresh air. Since efforts to seek concrete solutions to the environmental challenges have proven ineffective, the approach here combines the normative pursuit of moral justifications for claiming certain goods as fundamental human rights with the practical pursuit of procedural and institutional mechanisms to yield realisable solutions.","PeriodicalId":85828,"journal":{"name":"Utafiti","volume":"19 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135874592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}