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Acknowledgments The core of the research presented here was carried out during a year-long intensive ethnographic study from July 2005 to June 2006. I also made shorter trips to Tanzania in 1995, 2000, 2004, 2007, and 2011. The benefit of following a particular story line for a decade and a half is that one can track the narrative as it develops and can definitively assess whether its significance has withstood the test of time, as this story has. The downside, if one can call it that, is that one ends up with a lot of people to thank. To begin with, I would like to acknowledge generous research funding received from the Fulbright Faculty Research Abroad Program, the Rutgers University Research Council, the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences dean’s office, and the Rutgers Department of Geography. I am also grateful to the Tanzanian Commission on Science and Technology for providing research clearance. Professor George Jambiya of the University of Dar es Salaam has served as my official Tanzanian research contact since the beginning of the project. George has always shown a keen interest in my work and has gone out of his way on more than one occasion to offer advice and administrative support, for which I am very grateful. Several short sections of the book have been published previously. Sections of chapters 1, 2, 3, and the conclusion first appeared in modified form in “South African Capital in the Land of Ujamaa: Contested Terrain in Tanzania,” AfricaFiles At Issue Ezine 8, no. 5 (May/June 2008); that e-article was then published as “South African Capital in the Land of Ujamaa: Contested Terrain in Tanzania,” African Sociological Review 12, no. 1: 20–34. Portions of chapter 4 first appeared in: “Tanzanite as Conflict Gem: Certifying a Secure Commodity Chain in Tanzania,” Geoforum 41, no. 1: 56–65. I would like to thank the editors and publishers of these publications for granting permission to incorporate revised versions in this book. Tanzania has an extraordinarily talented group of political cartoonists, and they have had a field day in covering the rapid growth of South African investment in Tanzania . Two of these cartoons appear in the book, one drawn by Samuel Mwamkinga (Sammi Jo’une) and the other by King Kinya. Both cartoons first appeared in the Tanzanian daily newspaper, The Citizen (see the editions published on 16 February 2006, and 1 April 2006), and are reprinted here with the permission of the original artists and Mwananchi Communications, publishers of The Citizen, Mwananchi and Mwanaspoti newspapers in Tanzania. Mwananchi Communications also graciously provided permission to reprint a photograph from its 11 May 2006 edition. Finally, I would like to thank Angelo D’Silva, who generously shared key documents pertain- xiv Acknowledgments ing to his father Manuel D’Silva’s original discovery of tanzanite, the iconic gemstone featured in chapter 4. Portions of the book have been presented at meetings of the African Studies Association, the Association of American Geographers, and the New York Area Africanist Historians working group. At Rutgers, I have discussed my findings at events sponsored by the Department of Geography, the Center for African Studies, the Center for Race and Ethnicity, the Institute for Research on Women and the Postcolonial Studies Group. I have also given guest lectures or participated in workshops devoted in part to my work at the University of Dar es Salaam, Florida International University, Kansas University, the University of Kentucky, the University of MaineFarmington , the University of North Carolina, Penn State University, Temple University , Virginia Tech University, West Virginia University, and Yale University. I am grateful to my hosts and the audiences at all of these institutions for their willingness to engage with the ideas and empirical concerns reflected in this project. I have benefited enormously from countless discussions with friends and colleagues engaged in different aspects of this research. Among the Tanzanianists who shared their thoughts and insights are Kelly Askew, Paul Bjerk, Ian Bryceson, Ben Gardner, Rebecca Ghanadan, Bruce Heilman, Dorothy Hodgson, Jim Igoe, Joe Lugalla , Greg Maddox, Lawrence Mbogoni, Sheryl McCurdy, Garth Myers, Roderick Neumann, Stefano Ponte, Lisa Anne Richey, Tom Spear, Philip Stigger, Aili Tripp, Martin Walsh, and Brad Weiss. Rod Neumann in particular has been steadfast in his friendship and intellectual engagement since our years together in graduate school at Berkeley. Both he and my wife, Dorothy Hodgson, read earlier versions of the manuscript and offered valuable advice and timely encouragement. Other Africanist colleagues who share my...

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