Growing Up With Tanzania: Memories, Musings and Maths

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Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 2014 M07 20 - 302 pages

In Growing up with Tanzania. Karim Hirji, a renowned Professor of Medical Statistics and Fellow of the Tanzania Academy of Science, presents a multi-faceted, evocative portrait of his joyous but conflicted passage to adulthood during colonial and early-Uhuru Tanzania. His smooth style engages the reader with absorbing true tales, cultural currents, critical commentary and progressive possibilities. By vibrantly contrasting the hope-filled sixties with the cynical modern era, he also lays bare the paradoxes of personal life and society, past and present

 

Contents

Part I Memories
1
Part II Musings
121
Part III Spirals
171
Appendix A Recreational Mathematics
263
Appendix B Images of A Life
267
Acknowledgments and Notes
273
References and Readings
275
Author Profile
286
Back cover
287
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