Africa: Tanzanian Historian Herbert Ndomba - 'We Need to Rewrite History'

As the first PhD holder from his village, Tanzanian historian Herbert Ndomba feels that he has a duty to study his community's history. African history, he thinks, should be rewritten from an African perspective.

Herbert Ndomba can now put "Doctor" in front of his name. He successfully defended his dissertation at Stellenbosch University in South Africa with support from a German nonprofit organization, the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Ndomba had researched peasant tobacco production in southern Tanzania, where he himself comes from. It's a topic close to his heart.

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