In Search of a NationThe double sided nature of African nationalismits capacity to inspire expressions of unity, and its tendency to narrow political debateare explored by sixteen historians, focusing on the experience of Tanzania. The narrative of the nation of Tanzania, which was created by the anticolonial nationalist movement, expanded by the Union after the Zanzibar Revolution, and fused by the ideology of Ujamaa by Julius Nyerere, has shaped Tanzanian political