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Taifa is a story of African intellectual agency, but it is also an account of how nation and race emerged out of the legal, social, and economic histories in one major city, Dar es Salaam. Nation and race-both translatable as taifa in Swahili-were not simply universal ideas brought to Africa by European colonizers, as previous studies assume. They were instead categories crafted by local African thinkers to make sense of deep inequalities, particularly those between local Africans and Indian immigrants. Taifa shows how nation and race became the key political categories to guide colonial and

Ethnicity --- Nationalism --- Urbanization --- History. --- Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) --- Race relations --- Social conditions. --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- City of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) --- Dār es Salām (Tanzania) --- Daressalaam (Tanzania) --- دار السلام (Tanzania) --- Dār al-Salām (Tanzania) --- Dar äs Salam (Tanzania) --- Горад Дар-эс-Салам (Tanzania) --- Horad Dar-ės-Salam (Tanzania) --- Дар-эс-Салам (Tanzania) --- Дар ес-Салаам (Tanzania) --- Daressalam (Tanzania) --- Νταρ ες Σαλάμ (Tanzania) --- Daresalamo (Tanzania) --- Dárasalám (Tanzania) --- דאר א-סלאם (Tanzania) --- Dar a-Salam (Tanzania) --- Дар-эс-Салам шаары (Tanzania) --- Dar-ės-Salam shaary (Tanzania) --- Dāresalāma (Tanzania) --- Dar es Salamas (Tanzania) --- Дар ес Салам (Tanzania) --- ダルエスサラーム (Tanzania) --- Daruesusarāmu (Tanzania)