Letters to the Editor and Poems: <em>Mambo Leo</em> and Readers' Debates on <em>Dansi, Ustaarabu</em>, Respectability, and Modernity in Tanganyika, 1940s––1950s

Making the Modern: Contestations overMuziki wa Dansiin Tanganyika, ca. 1945–1961

“…That dansi as leisure practice carried ambiguities and tensions emerges particularly from the analysis of the Swahili press, which was a forum in which African correspondents voiced their opinions on diverse issues relevant to their lives. This source has not been used in previous scholarly works on dansi (see Suriano 2011).…”