Dar Days: The Early Years in Tanzania
Dar Days is a narrative account of Charles R. Swift's experiences in Tanzania during his eight year employment by the Tanzanian government, serving as Consultant Psychiatrist to the Ministry of Health and Professor of Psychiatry in the new Faculty of Medicine. This book proceeds chronologically from Swift's arrival in Dar es Salaam in September 1966 to his departure in July 1974. Dar Days is unique in its description of life in a newly independent African nation. It helps the reader understand why Tanzania has remained politically stable throughout its forty years, a paradigm of what can occur when people work together for a common good.
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Dar Days: The Early Years in Tanzania
Dar Days is a narrative account of Charles R. Swift's experiences in Tanzania during his eight year employment by the Tanzanian government, serving as Consultant Psychiatrist to the Ministry of Health and Professor of Psychiatry in the new Faculty of Medicine. This book proceeds chronologically from Swift's arrival in Dar es Salaam in September 1966 to his departure in July 1974. Dar Days is unique in its description of life in a newly independent African nation. It helps the reader understand why Tanzania has remained politically stable throughout its forty years, a paradigm of what can occur when people work together for a common good.
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Dar Days: The Early Years in Tanzania

Dar Days: The Early Years in Tanzania

by Charles R. Swift
Dar Days: The Early Years in Tanzania

Dar Days: The Early Years in Tanzania

by Charles R. Swift

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Dar Days is a narrative account of Charles R. Swift's experiences in Tanzania during his eight year employment by the Tanzanian government, serving as Consultant Psychiatrist to the Ministry of Health and Professor of Psychiatry in the new Faculty of Medicine. This book proceeds chronologically from Swift's arrival in Dar es Salaam in September 1966 to his departure in July 1974. Dar Days is unique in its description of life in a newly independent African nation. It helps the reader understand why Tanzania has remained politically stable throughout its forty years, a paradigm of what can occur when people work together for a common good.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780761823315
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 07/16/2002
Pages: 228
Product dimensions: 5.38(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

Charles R. Swift is a Freelance Consultant and Author in Durango, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Tanzania Maps
Chapter 2 Foreword
Chapter 3 Preface
Chapter 4 Acknowledgements
Chapter 5 Introduction
Chapter 6 1966: Settling in, Aided by Drs. Akim and Ladda; First Upcountry Safaris; University Students Protest; Psychiatric Patients in Prisons
Chapter 7 1967: Tabora: Nyerere as Student and Teacher; National Self-reliance; Eduardo Mondlane and FRELIMO; Moslem Women in Village
Chapter 8 1968: Zanzibar: Closed Society, Regular Visits Begin; Friendship with Hassan; Mirembe Revisited; Charles Nchimbi Delivers
Chapter 9 1969: Eduardo Assassinated; Hassan and Whales; "Laughing Disease"; Thought Control (?) on Zanzibar, Visits Terminated
Chapter 10 1970: Safari to Mbeya via "Hell's Run"; Nyerere's Dialogue with University Students; Chinese Come to Build Tan-Zam Railway
Chapter 11 1971: Innovative Medical Student Teaching in Villages; Ex-Zanzibar Minister in Detention; Safari to Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika
Chapter 12 1972: Visit to Jane Goodall's Chimpanzee Research Center; More Mass Hysteria; Camel Auction in Sudan
Chapter 13 1973: Making of a Witch; Begin Psychiatric Text; N. Shamuyarira Relates Childhood Fears; Audience with Haile Selassie
Chapter 14 1974: My Successor, Johnson Hauli, Returns from Edinburgh University; Winding Down; Book is Complete; Difficulties in Leave-taking
Chapter 15 Epilogue
Chapter 16 Notes
Chapter 17 Index
Chapter 18 Biographical Note
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