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Author Hirji, Karim F., author.

Title Growing up with Tanzania : memories, musings and maths / Karim F. Hirji
Published Oxford : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 284 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-284)
Notes Print version record
Subject Hirji, Karim F.
SUBJECT Hirji, Karim F
Subject HISTORY -- Africa -- Central.
Manners and customs
Civilization
SUBJECT Tanzania. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80121275
Tanzania -- Civilization
Tanzania -- Social life and customs
Subject Tanzania
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789987753031
9987753035
1322319677
9781322319674