Growing up with Tanzania : memories, musings and maths / / Karim F. Hirji

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459905303321
• Autore: Karim F Hirji
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : , : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 9987-753-03-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 967.8
• Soggetti: Electronic books.; Tanzania
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Acronyms -- Preface -- Memories -- Lindi life -- Multiple identities -- Split personality -- Two teachers -- A new world -- Parallel universes -- From carpentry to calculus -- National service -- Musings -- Education and family -- Education and community -- Education and nation -- Spirals -- Spirals of nature -- Spirals of solidarity -- Spirals of separation -- Spirals of despair -- Spirals of hope -- Spirals of song -- Spirals of self -- Appendix A. Recreational mathematics -- Appendix B. Images of a life -- Acknowledgments and notes -- References and readings -- Author profile.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Growing up with Tanzania, Karim Hirji, a renowned Professor of Medical Statistics and Fellow of the Tanzania Academy of Science, presents a multi-faceted, evocative portrait of his joyous but conflicted passage to adulthood during colonial and early-Uhuru Tanzania. His smooth style engages the reader with absorbing true tales, cultural currents, critical commentary and progressive possibilities. By vibrantly contrasting the hope-filled sixties with the cynical modern era, he also lays bare the paradoxes of personal life and society, past and present.