Abbreviations

ADN

Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst (General German News Agency) – GDR

ANC

African National Congress – South Africa

ASP

Afro-Shirazi Party – Zanzibar

BBC

British Broadcasting Corporation

CCM

Chama cha Mapinduzi (Party of the Revolution) – Tanzania

CDU

Christlich Demokratische Union (Christian Democratic Union) – FRG

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency – USA

CID

Criminal Investigation Department – Tanzania

COREMO

Comité Revolucionário de Moçambique (Mozambique Revolutionary Committee)

EAC

East African Community

EAF

East African Federation

FCO

Foreign and Commonwealth Office – UK

FRELIMO

Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Mozambique Liberation Front)

FRG

Federal Republic of Germany

GDR

German Democratic Republic

IPI

International Press Institute

KGB

Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) – Soviet Union

MAE

Ministère des affaires étrangères (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) – France

MAE-DAL

Direction Afrique Levant, MAE (Africa and Middle East Division) – France

MAE-DAM

Direction Afrique Malgache, MAE (Africa and Madagascar Division) – France

MfAA

Ministerium für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten (Ministry for Foreign Affairs) – GDR

MfS

Ministerium für Staatsicherheit (Ministry for State Security, ‘Stasi’) – GDR

MNE

Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) – Portugal

MOLINACO

Mouvement de Libération Nationale des Comores (National Liberation Movement of Comoros)

MSZ

Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) – Poland

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NEC

TANU National Executive Committee

NUTA

National Union of Tanganyika Workers

NWICO

New World Information and Communications Order

OAU

Organisation of African Unity

PAC

Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania – South Africa

PAFMECA

Pan-African Freedom Movement of Eastern and Central Africa

PAIGC

Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde)

PAYM

Pan-African Youth Movement

PDP

Panafrican Democratic Party – Malawi

PIDE

Polícia Internacional e do Defesa do Estado (International and State Defence Police) – Portugal

RTD

Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam

SCCIM

Serviços de Centralização e Coordenação de Moçambique (Services for the Centralisation and Coordination of Information for Mozambique) – Portugal

SHIHATA

Shirika la Habari la Tanzania (News Agency of Tanzania)

SPD

Sozialdemocratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of Germany) – FRG

STC

State Trading Corporation – Tanzania

SWAPO

South West Africa People’s Organisation – Namibia

TANU

Tanganyika African National Union

TAZARA

Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority

TBC

Tanganyika Broadcasting Corporation

TPDF

Tanzania People’s Defence Force

TYL

TANU Youth League

UDI

Unilateral Declaration of Independence

UDSM

University of Dar es Salaam

UN

United Nations

USARF

University Students’ African Revolutionary Front – Tanzania

ZANU

Zimbabwe African National Union

ZAPU

Zimbabwe African People’s Union

ZNP

Zanzibar Nationalist Party

ZPPP

Zanzibar and Pemba People’s Party

Map 1.1 Tanzania and its neighbours, circa 1968.

Map by Kate Blackmer.

Map 1.2 Central Dar es Salaam, circa 1968.

Map by Kate Blackmer, incorporating research by George Roberts and Mejah Mbuya of Afriroots, with assistance from Natalie Smith.