The Nyamwezi Today: A Tanzanian People in the 1970s

by R.G. Abrahams

The Nyamwezi of west-central Tanzania have had a long history of involvement in the wider world as farmers, traders, migrant labourers, and subjects of first German and then British colonial regimes. Dr Abrahams first lived and worked among the Nyamwezi in the last years of British rule (1957-60), and he revisited their area in 1974-5 and 1978. This book is based largely on these later visits and traces the nature of developments since his earlier...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521296196
• ISBN13: 9780521296199
• Release Date: May 1981
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"