Growing Up With Tanzania. Memories, Musings and Maths
Karim F. Hirji (Author)
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
eBook, English, 2014
Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2014
1 online resource (302 p.)
9789987753031, 9789987082230, 9987753035, 9987082238
1156896298
Acronyms
Preface
Memories
Lindi life
Multiple identities
Split personality
Two teachers
A new world
Parallel universes
From carpentry to calculus
National service
Musings
Education and family
Education and community
Education and nation
Spirals
Spirals of nature
Spirals of solidarity
Spirals of separation
Spirals of despair
Spirals of hope
Spirals of song
Spirals of self
Appendix A. Recreational mathematics
Appendix B. Images of a life
Acknowledgments and notes
References and readings
Author profile
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