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In this collection of ethnic group histories, written by authors from the Mara Region of Tanzania, local people tell their stories as a way to inspire development that builds on the strengths of the past. It combines histories from the small, but closely related, ethnic groups of Ikizu, Sizaki, Ikoma, Ngoreme, Nata, Ishenyi and Tatoga in South Mara, east of Lake Victoria and west of Serengeti National Park. Many of the authors compiled their stories by meeting with groups of elders. They were concerned to preserve history for the next generation who had not taken the time to learn the stories orally. The stories were written in Swahili and translated into English with annotations and an introduction so that readers not familiar with this region might also share in the experience. It also includes transcriptions of oral interviews with some of the same stories to get a sense of the ongoing conversions about the past. This collection makes local history told in a local idiom accessible to students of African history interested in social memory and the creation of ethnicity.

Liberalised development in Tanzania : studies on accumulation processes and local institutions

East Coast Fever, a form of the cattle disease known as theileriosis, has been a scourge of livestock-owning inhabitants of many African countries during the twentieth century. It constitutes "one of the major threats to the cattle industry in Tanzania and indeed a large expanse of eastern, central and southern Africa."l Analysis of theileriosis in these regions, nevertheless, has not nosed into the flow of historians' narratives.2 Their familiar litany of late nineteenthand early twentieth-century afflictions famine, rinderpest, trypanosomiasis, smallpox, cholera generally omits East Coast Fever. Its neglect in historical literature is all the more noteworthy considering that recent writing on East and South African history is distinguished by its concern with health, disease, and environmental issues.

From Marx's writing on the "Irish question," through Lenin's Imperialism, on to Meillassoux's recent work with labor migration, the impact of imperialist economic development upon class struggles within the metropolitan nations has occupied analysts of capitalist imperialism. But cultural imperialism and its relationship with metropolitan class struggles may deserve similar attention. The conceptions of African society imposed by European administrators and scholars upon colonial Africa may have played a vital role in obscuring African resistance to colonial domination and class development in Africa from even the most progressive elements of the metropolitan proletariat. The following account describes the image of African political attitudes and actions during World War II created by contemporary French propaganda and, subsequently, French historiography, and discusses the use of these images by the French Communist party in the postwar period.1