Emma Minja
PhD Candidate
Research
Histories of Infrastructure Development and Future Making in Tanzania
Research Areas
- Infrastructure Development
- Rural Transformation
- Land Use
- Environmental History
Curriculum vitae
April 2022
University Bonn
PhD Candidate in the Collaborative Research Center “Future Rural Africa” C03 “Green Futures” Project
2018 -2020
University of Dar es Salaam
Ass. Researcher-CRC Funded Project “Past Futures
2015 – 2018
Mwalimu Nyerere Memorial Academy, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Ass. Researcher
Education
2018 - 2020
University of Dar es Salaam
MA( History)
2012 - 2014
University of Dar es Salaam
Education Management and Administration
2004 - 2008
University of Dar es Salaam
BA ( with Education)
Publications
Minja, E. (2024): Imagining Hydropower: Transnational Narratives and Realities of the Stiegler’s Gorge Project in Tanzania, 1960s–1980s. Zamani: A Journal of African Historical Studies 1(1), 52-82. Link
Müller-Mahn, D.; Minja, E.; Rieber, A. (2023): Forschungsalltag in Afrika – ein Projektbeispiel. In: Geographische Rundschau (10), S. 44 - 45. Westermann Verlag.
Minja, E. & Chuhila, MJ, (2022): Ujamaa in the Kilombero Valley: Msolwa and Signali Villages as Symbols of a National Project, ca. 1967 – 1990s. Tanzania Zamani 14(1). Link
Minja, E. (2020), Government Intervention in Rural Development in Kilombero Valley, 1960s-2010s (Thesis)
Minja, E. (2014), Financial Allocation to Public Schools in Dar es Salaam ( Thesis)