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ix Acknowledgments This book began long ago as an idea that I had at the end of my first quarter at Northwestern University, when a small seminar of first-year African History graduate students—Greg Mann, Sarah Lozowski, Jeff Strabone, and I—met in Jonathon Glassman’s apartment in Rogers Park to discuss Moyez G. Vassanji ’s The Gunny Sack. I must first thank all of the people in that seminar, whose influence on my way of thinking about African History was formative. My debt to Jonathon Glassman will become apparent to readers familiar with his work. He convinced me that a history of nationalism and race in Dar es Salaam would be an important project, and helped to sharpen my arguments through his powerful if sometimes unnerving criticisms. In ways that are obvious and not obvious, this book could not have been produced without his influence and support. I must also thank Sara Berry for helping move this project into a fundable state during her brief but quite influential time at Northwestern. Other faculty—James Campbell, John Rowe, Ivor Wilks, John Hunwick, Jane Guyer, the late Harold Perkin, Thomas Heyck, David Schoenbrun , Jock McLane, and Richard Lepine—were all intellectually generous to me at key moments during my years at Northwestern. David Easterbrook at the Melville Herskovits Library was and remains particularly helpful. I was fortunate to share the company of a tremendous group of graduate students during those years, whom I would like to thank for their ideas and friendship: Brett Shadle, Greg Mann, Jeremy Prestholdt, Sarah Lozowski, Giulia Barrera, Jeff Strabone, Pius Nyambara, Chris Hayden, Lorelle Semley, Amy Settergren, Rebecca Shereikis, Chris Beneke, Mike Guenther, Elizabeth Prevost, Neil Kodesh, Mike Bailey, Guy Ortolano, Pat Griffin, Rhiannon Stephens , Jeremy Berndt, Karen O’Brien, and Mike Tetelman. In Tanzania I encountered a delightful group of people whose advice, kindness , and support I deeply appreciate: Isaria Kimambo, Nestor Luanda, Yusuf Lawi, Fred Kaijage, the late Hasnain Panjwani, Anja Panjwani, Ralf Orlik, Bruce Heilman, Paul Kaiser, Abdul Sheriff, Fatma Aloo, Hamisi Msumi, Mohamed Kibanda, Luna Mkayula, Jonathan Walz, Stephen Hill, Blandina Giblin, Hasnain Virjee, Ned Bertz, Cymone Fourshey, Rhonda Gonzales, x w Acknowledgments Rashida Sharif, Franck Raimbault, Tadasu Tsuruta, Joseph Kironde, Sospeter Mkapa, Issa Shivji, Walter Bgoya, Geoffrey Owens, Peter Bofin, Elector Kilusungu , Gary Burgess, Paul Bjerk, Stephanie Wynne-Jones, and Robyn Pariser. A special word of thanks must go to Mohamed Said, who has generously hosted me in Tanga and introduced me to several important interlocutors around Dar es Salaam. I must also thank Ned Alpers, who generously wrote long and thoughtful answers to a long set of questions that I e-mailed to him when I was just beginning graduate school. I spent five very rewarding years at SOAS, where I enjoyed the advice and support of Wayne Dooling, John Parker, Cedric Barnes, Richard Reid, James McDougall, William Gervase Clarence-Smith, Rachel Dwyer, Barbara Spina, Elke Stock reiter, Lutz Marten, Farouk Topan, Tom Cadogan, Mike Jennings, Pedro Machado, Ed Simpson, Felicitas Becker, Cyp Stephenson, Carol Miles, David Martin, and Adam Waite. I would also like to thank other people who assisted me in one way or another while I was in the UK: the late Randal Sadleir, Ruth Watson, Martin Walsh, Jason Mosley, Dan Branch, Emma Hunter, Gez McCann, Ethan Sanders, Justin Willis, Shane Doyle, Karin Barber, Terence Ranger, Philip Murphy, Gareth Austin, Sloan Mahone , Sana Aiyar, Kate Luongo, David Killingray, and Steven Pierce. Derek Peterson and John Lonsdale warmly hosted me during visits to Cambridge University, as did David Anderson and Jan-Georg Deutsch during visits to Oxford University. I was also fortunate to visit Berlin a few times, where I received much valuable support and advice from Katrin Bromber, Andreas Eckert, Kai Kresse, Achim von Oppen, and Katharina Zoeller. At the University of Illinois I have had wonderful colleagues who have each helped in some way with this project: Diane Koenker, Antoinette Burton, Terri Barnes, Carol Symes, Don Crummey, Craig Koslofsky, Mark Leff, Nils Jacobsen, Ken Cuno, Julie Laut, Brian Dill, Claire Crowston, Leslie Reagan, Fred Hoxie, Al Kagan, and Mary Stuart. The following institutions have provided support and assistance for this project: The History Department, Program of African Studies, Melville Herskovits Library, and Graduate College at Northwestern University; Fulbright-IIE; NSEP; COSTECH (Tanzania); the History Department and East Africana Library at the University of Dar es Salaam; the Tanzanian National Archives; the United Kingdom National Archives; Rhodes House Library, Oxford University; the National Archives and Records...