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Tanzania's New National Stadium and the Rhetoric of Development
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Ufahamu : Journal of the African Activist Association
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January 1, 2007
- Author:
- Sortijas, Steve
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This paper looks at current discourse on Tanzania's new National Stadium and situates it in the context of Tanzania's aspirations in the realms of international football and international development. The new National Stadium, built in part with foreign aid, is generally depicted as a marker for the promise of Tanzania's development. I argue that the new Stadium's "hidden discourse" provides an opportunity for Tanzania's politicians to reconfigure certain terms of Tanzanian citizenship, which embraces both old and new rhetoric on development.
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