East Africa

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Intimacy, history, and the conditions of proximity.​​

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Everyday Encounters​

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History is often written through exceptional events.​

This archive is equally interested in ordinary encounters.

Beginning with Ned Bertz's work on cinema halls in Dar es Salaam, this entry considers how everyday spaces produced relationships between Black and South Asian communities across East Africa.​​

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“Indian Ocean World Cinema: Viewing the History of Race, Diaspora and Nationalism in Urban Tanzania”
— Ned Berz

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