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Dar days : the early years in Tanzania / Charles R. Swift ; foreword by William Minter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swift, Charles R., 1919-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychiatrists.
- Americans.
- Manners and customs.
- Tanzania--Social life and customs.
- Tanzania.
- Swift, Charles R., 1919-.
- Swift, Charles R.
- Americans--Tanzania--Biography.
- Psychiatrists--Tanzania--Biography.
- Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)--Biography.
- Dar es Salaam (Tanzania).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2002]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Tanzania Maps v
- 1966 - Settling in, aided by Drs Akim and Ladda; first upcountry safaris; University students protest; psychiatric patients in prisons 1
- 1967 - Tabora: Nyerere as student and teacher; national self-reliance; Eduardo Mondlane and FRELIMO; Moslem woman in village 31
- 1968 - Zanzibar: closed society, regular visits begin; friendship with Hassan; Mirembe revisited; Charles Nchimbi delivers 59
- 1969 - Eduardo assassinated; Hassan and whales; "Laughing Disease"; thought control (?) on Zanzibar, visits terminated 77
- 1970 - Safari to Mbeya via "Hell's Run"; Nyerere's dialogue with University students; Chinese come to build Tan-Zam railway 103
- 1971 - Innovative medical student teaching in villages; ex-Zanzibar Minister in detention; safari to Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika 123
- 1972 - Visit to Jane Goodall's chimpanzee research center; more mass hysteria; camel auction in Sudan 141
- 1973 - Making of a witch; begin psychiatric text; N. Shamuyarira relates childhood fears; audience with Haile Selassie 159
- 1974 - My successor, Johnson Hauli, returns from Edinburgh University; winding down; book is complete; difficulties in leave-taking 187.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-[204]) and index.
- ISBN:
- 076182331X
- OCLC:
- 49821522
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