Steven Fabian is an Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Fredonia. Awarded two of Canada's most prestigious scholarships by the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Trust Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, his research has appeared in journals such as the International Journal of African Historical Studies, the Canadian Journal of African Studies, and the Journal of Eastern African Studies. He was President of the Tanzania Studies Association from 2015¿2017 and currently serves as co-chair of Radical History Review.
Introduction; 1. Owners of the town: Shomvi
Zaramo
Nyamwezi
and Indians; 2. Owners of the town: Baluchis
Omanis
and Spiritans; 3. Becoming Wabagamoyo: a local vocabulary for a Swahili town; 4. The particularities of place: space
identity
and the Coastal Rebellion of 1888¿1890; 5. Colonial power
community identity
and consultation; 6. 'Curing the cancer of the colony': undermining local attachments.
