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Notes 1. Introduction 1. Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority, Archives Booklet (draft) (2007), 29, courtesy of James Mwitangeti; James Mwitangeti, personal communication, 16 August 2007. 2. “The Tortoise and the Hare,” Newsweek, 25 October 1971, 56. See also Philip Snow, The Star Raft: China’s Encounter with Africa (New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988), 165. 3. Servacius B. Likwelile, interview by author, Dar es Salaam, April 2000. See also Servacius B. Likwelile, “An Analysis of Efficiency in the Trucking Industry in Tanzania” (Ph.D. thesis, University of Dar es Salaam, 1996). 4. U.S. Congress, Congressional Record—House (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 18 January 1973), H 286. 5. George T. Yu, China’s African Policy: A Study of Tanzania (London: Praeger, 1975), 132. 6. Kim Jaycox, telephone interview by author, 26 October 1999; “Highway, Railroad Compete in Tanzania,” Christian Science Monitor, 27 December 1972, 4; Alan Hutchinson, China’s African Revolution (London: Hutchinson, 1975), 270. 7. Servacius B. Likwelile, interview by author, Dar es Salaam, April 2000. 8. Wang Qinmei, interview by author, Beijing, 29 June 2007. 9. The Nationalist, 2 October 1969; emphasis in original. 10. Thomas Land, “Chinese Working on the Railroad,” The Nation, 19 October 1970, 371. 11. J. M. Mukama, “Mwenyekiti wa Kamati ya Suala la Kufungwa kwa Stesheni ya Mbingu, to Mbunge wa Kilombero, Wilaya ya Kilombero, Re: Kufungwa kwa Stesheni ya TAZARA— Mbingu,” 1 August 1994. Kilombero District File R.40/6. 12. CIA Special Report, “Tanzania Taking the Left Turn,” 21 May, 1965. 13. “Red Guard Line Chugging into Africa,” Wall Street Journal, 29 September 1967. 166   Notes to pages 6–15 14. “Comrades-in-Arms: Tanzania in Front Line of the People’s Fight,” The Nationalist, 7 June 1965, 2. 15. Yu, China’s African Policy, 108. 16. Du Jian, interview by author, Dar es Salaam, July 2000. 17. Raymond Ndimbo, interview by author, Mbeya, 29 July 2006. 18. Tanzania National Archives (TNA) C/2112/71, IS/I.317, 23 September 1971. 19. D. D. S. M. Mumello, “Final Report on Tunnels Construction, Mkela Base Camp,” 1972. 20. This has been documented by Lisa Lindsay, in her work on masculinity and colonial railway labor in West Africa. Lisa Lindsay and Stephan Miescher, eds., Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2003). For Tanzania, see Thaddeus Sunseri , Vilimani: Labor Migration and Rural Change in Early Colonial Tanzania (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2002). 21. A description of the application of this Chinese development model of labor in Africa can be found in Deborah Bräutigam, Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting Green Revolution (New York: St. Martin’s, 1998), 148–151. 22. Dick Foeken and Samuel Owuor, “Multi-spatial Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa: Rural Farming by Urban Households—The Case of Nakuru Town, Kenya,” in Mobile Africa: Changing Patterns of Movement in Africa and Beyond, ed. Mirjam de Bruijn, Rijk van Dijk, and Dick Foeken (Boston: Brill, 2001); Deborah Bryceson, “Multiplex Livelihoods in Rural Africa: Recasting the Terms and Conditions of Gainful Employment,” Journal of Modern African Studies 40, no. 1 (2002): 1–28. 23. A large section of the railway between Msolwa and Dar es Salaam runs mostly through the Selous Reserve and is therefore uninhabited. 24. Susan Geiger, TANU Women: Gender and Culture in the Making of Tanganyikan Nationalism, 1955–1965 (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1997); Stephan Miescher, Louise White, and David Cohen, eds., African Lives, African Voices: Critical Practices in Oral History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001). 25. Elizabeth Tonkin, Narrating Our Pasts: The Social Construction of Oral History (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992). See also Kathleen Canning, “Feminist History after the Linguistic Turn: Historicizing Discourse and Experience,” Signs 19, no. 2 (1994): 368–404. 26. The thesis of Ali Mohamed Sendaro is an unusually helpful source for this reason. A. M. Sendaro, “Workers’ Efficiency, Motivation and Management: The Case of the TanzaniaZambia Railway Construction” (Ph.D. diss., University of Dar es Salaam, 1987). 27. George Yu, “Dragon in the Bush: Peking’s Presence in Africa,” Asian Survey 8 (1968): 1025–1026. 28. Scholars and journalists wishing to write about Chinese-Tanzanian relations were treated with suspicion in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Nigerian scholar Alaba Ogunsanwo , whose work is cited in this book, was arrested and detained in 1969 while carrying out his doctoral thesis on China in Africa. Alan Hutchison describes being arrested at Dar es Salaam harbor while photographing the off-loading of Zambian copper. Hutchinson, China’s African Revolution, 267...

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