The Peace Corps in Tanzania
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The Peace Corps in Tanzania

A History

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The Peace Corps in Tanzania

A History

About this book

An examination of one of the earliest Peace Corps programs in Africa

In 1961, the first group of Peace Corps volunteers in Tanzania—surveyors, engineers, and geologists—arrived in Dar es Salaam with three core objectives: meet the newly independent country's needs for trained personnel, promote a better understanding of Americans, and promote a better understanding of the people served by the volunteers. The Peace Corps in Tanzania traces the program's progress, successes, and challenges, including analysis of the tensions that led to the program's closure in 1969. The program eventually resumed in 1980, which required significant changes in US-Tanzania relations.

Lawrence E. Y. Mbogoni depicts a range of volunteers' experiences, including anecdotes about their training, their work and social lives in Tanzania, and how they readjusted to life back in America following their service. Although there are several memoirs by returned Peace Corps volunteers from Tanzania, this is the first scholarly study of the agency's history in Tanzania more broadly. Mbogoni draws extensively on archival resources, Tanzanian newspapers and government reports, and interviews he conducted with returned volunteers. The result is an engaging account of volunteers' contributions and a critical assessment of how successfully the Peace Corps has met its objectives.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover 
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents 
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1: Tanganyika One (T-1): Engineers, Surveyors, and Geologists
  10. Chapter 2: Race and Peace Corps Recruitment and Training
  11. Chapter 3: Tanganyika Two (T-2): Volunteer Nurses
  12. Chapter 4: Tanganyika Five (T-5): Civil Engineers, 1964–1966
  13. Chapter 5: Tanzania Six (T-6): Volunteer Teachers, 1964–1969
  14. Chapter 6: Termination of the Peace Corps Program in Tanzania
  15. Chapter 7: Return of the Peace Corps Program to Tanzania
  16. Chapter 8: Peace Corps Volunteer Mishaps in Tanzania
  17. Chapter 9: Anecdotes of Peace Corps Volunteer Experiences
  18. Chapter 10: Peace Corps Volunteer Early Departures
  19. Chapter 11: Peace Corps Volunteers and the Reentry Problem
  20. Chapter 12: The Friends of Tanzania (FOT) Make a Difference
  21. Chapter 13: Peace Corps Volunteers Who Died While Serving in Tanzania
  22. Conclusion
  23. Notes
  24. Index