Growing Up With Tanzania: Memories, Musings and MathsMkuki 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
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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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