Magister Educationis - MEd / Students in African universities have a long history of political involvement at the institutional level and in national politics. The present study investigates the political opinions of students in Tanzania with respect to (1) their attitudes towards democracy and how these attitudes could be explained, (2) student satisfaction with the way their university and their country, Tanzania, are governed, and (3) whether student leaders (SL) have more democratic attitudes than students who are not in formal student leadership positions (SNL) and if there are other relevant groups that can be identified whose political attitudes differ significantly from those of other groups. The study draws on the work of Bratton, Mattes and Gyimah-Boadi (2005) and employs a survey questionnaire adapted from the Afrobarometer. Using survey data collected at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, a number of questions are investigated, and related hypotheses are tested in order to determine the extent to which students understand and demand democracy, how they perceive the supply of democracy, and what their attitudes are towards university governance and national politics in general. / South Africa

According to reports from Reporters sans frontiers and Freedom House, the freedom of the press has declined during the recent years in the sub-Saharan country Tanzania. Using the human rights reports as an entry point, this study set out to investigate the working conditions for journalists in the capital de facto of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam. An important aim was to dig deeper and show the local and culturally specific conditions. The study supports that the press freedom, as well as the working conditions have declined during the last years for the journalists in Dar es Salaam. However, the study also shows that the new laws and government measures, described by the human rights reports as reducing the press freedom, is not considered by every journalist to be negative. The challenges differ among the corps of journalists, as their values of journalism differs. The greatest denominator among the informants was the high-degree of journalistic interventionism, directed at helping the society. In some cases, this took form as a practice of development journalism. The strong connections to the local community, the country and the religious affiliations are thought to contribute to these values. For journalists in private media, the press freedom was found to be the most acute problem, while for journalists in state-owned media it was economic issues. The press freedom was connected to the perceived job autonomy, and senior journalists and journalists working for international media were found to be more autonomous. Self-censorship was used by many in the private media sector as a tool to avoid both bureaucratic harassment from government, as well as violent repercussions. The main challenges included new restricting laws, economic issues which lead to the practice of brown envelopes, the parliament being located in Dodoma, gender-issues, scared sources and the advancement of social media. Theories and earlier research evolving from the values of journalism and journalism in Africa were used as tools to understand and compare with. The results are based on fieldwork conducted during a period of two months in the beginning of 2019, with qualitative interviews held with journalists in the city of Dar es Salaam.

Les universités du monde entier vivent un malaise profond. Dans les pays du Tiers-Monde, les problèmes à son égard, s'accumulent et les solutions restent fragiles. En Afrique, l'institution universitaire ne parvient pas à surmonter les traumatismes de la colonisation. Dans l'ère du développement, la réalité éducationnelle et la fonction universitaire paraissent engluées dans des mécanismes très complexes. Comment cela est-il possible? Existe-t-il une corrélation entre tous ces éléments? Afin d'apporter des éléments de discussion à ces interrogations, il est fait ici une étude, non exhaustive certes, des traits fondamentaux qui exerceraient une influence considérable sur la fonction universitaire. En effet, nous pensons que l'institution universitaire est étroitement liée à l'idée que l'on se fait du développement de la société en général. Corollairement, nous émettons l'hypothèse qu'une théorie de développement, qu'une société choisit de privilégier, influe nécessairement sur les finalités, les objectifs de l'université et les attitudes que l'on développe à son endroit. En guise d'illustration de cette assertion, nous tentons dans ce travail, une analyse de deux universités d'Afrique Noire, au Rwanda et en Tanzanie, au niveau des programmes, de la recherche et des principes qui guident l'accessibilité à ce niveau d'enseignement. Pour ce faire, nous nous proposons d'adopter une démarche à double volet. D'une part, nous allons analyser une intense documentation: ouvrages généraux, documents officiels et inédits au sujet des deux universités. Dans un deuxième temps, nous allons compléter cette approche par des interviews auprès de cinq personnalités qui ont eu à s'impliquer dans le développement des deux universités en question. Notre but final est d'essayer de dégager une explication cohérente des relations entre l'Université et les conceptions de développement en Afrique, au Rwanda et en Tanzanie. / Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2014

The contemporary development of Kiswahili Studies has its several nodes, one of which is traced from the University of Dar es Salaam. It adds to a larger debate on the space and meaning of African Studies. This article takes a historical perspective aiming to discuss the challenges, prospects and the developments of Kiswahili Studies as a growing discipline on its own.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 2002. / Cover title. "June 2002." AD-A405 990. Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-80). Also available via the World Wide Web.