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Deutero: How are people and organizations denoting and worrying about the phenomena you study? The communities in which I am engaging seemed to be worried or in a state of precarity regarding their positionality within the country - of feeling targeted or racially marginalized as “not really” African or Tanzanian. There is a sense of nostalgia over previous periods where an oceanic outlook was more prevalent than one that centered a more mainland or continental expression of national heritage and culture.

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