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Product Identifiers
PublisherAsmodee North America, Inc.
ISBN-101589946146
ISBN-139781589946149
eBay Product ID (ePID)74266210
Product Key Features
Book TitleWings of War: Dawn of WWII Miniature: Falkowski : Dawn of WWII Miniature: Falkowski
LanguageEnglish
TopicBoard Games
Publication Year2009
GenreGames & Activities
AuthorFantasy Flight Games Staff
FormatGame
Dimensions
Item Height2 in
Item Length4 in
Item Width3.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisWinner of the 2013 Ogot Award for best book on East African Studies (sponsored by the African Studies Association) "Taifa" is a story of African intellectual agency, but it is also an account of how nation and race emerged out of the legal, social, and economic histories in one major city, Dar es Salaam. Nation and race -- both translatable as "taifa" in Swahili -- were not simply universal ideas brought to Africa by European colonizers, as previous studies assume. They were instead categories crafted by local African thinkers to make sense of deep inequalities, particularly those between local Africans and Indian immigrants. "Taifa" shows how nation and race became the key political categories to guide colonial and postcolonial life in this African city. Using deeply researched archival and oral evidence, "Taifa" transforms our understanding of urban history and shows how concerns about access to credit and housing became intertwined with changing conceptions of nation and nationhood. "Taifa" gives equal attention to both Indians and Africans; in doing so, it demonstrates the significance of political and economic connections between coastal East Africa and India during the era of British colonialism, and illustrates how the project of racial nationalism largely severed these connections by the 1970s.