Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History 2020
DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.473
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Mohamed, Bibi Titi

Abstract: African women were at the forefront of nationalistic struggles for independence in Africa that were at their height in the 1950s. In mainland Tanzania, then known as Tanganyika, Bibi Titi Mohamed emerged as a leading voice in building the liberation movement through a political party known as the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU). As a leader of the women’s wing of TANU, she traveled throughout the country to mobilize both women and men to join the party that led to the independence of Tanganyika in the… Show more

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“…A recent reappraisal of Bibi Titi argues that the trip was not a 'defining moment' in her political thinking. 55 Indeed, when Bibi Titi's life history was recovered through interviews in the 1980s and 1990s, historians were interested to reinsert women like her into the 'metanarrative' of nationalist organising in Tanganyika, from which they had been eclipsed. 56 Thus, the importance (or irrelevance) of Bibi Titi's India trip was the potential for it to influence her activism on her return.…”
Section: Afro-asian and Pan-african Internationalismsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…A recent reappraisal of Bibi Titi argues that the trip was not a 'defining moment' in her political thinking. 55 Indeed, when Bibi Titi's life history was recovered through interviews in the 1980s and 1990s, historians were interested to reinsert women like her into the 'metanarrative' of nationalist organising in Tanganyika, from which they had been eclipsed. 56 Thus, the importance (or irrelevance) of Bibi Titi's India trip was the potential for it to influence her activism on her return.…”
Section: Afro-asian and Pan-african Internationalismsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Her political career, and any lasting connections she might have made with Kanpur delegates, were victim to personal-political conflicts surrounding the prescriptions of the 1967 Arusha Declaration. 62 This deglobalising dynamic coincided with growing educational links for Tanzanians in the 1960s, a lag of sorts in the connections that Bibi Titi had called for in the 1950s. 63 This overarching chronologyfrom 1950s internationalist conferences to 1960s incarceration was not uniform, a fact illustrated with the story of one of Bibi Titi's contemporaries, Ugandan economist and political philosopher Boloki Chango Machyo W'Obanda.…”
Section: Afro-asian and Pan-african Internationalismsmentioning
confidence: 99%