Dr. Frank Edward

Dr. Frank Edward is a lecturer in history of technology and urbanisation at University of Dar es Salaam. He attained his PhD in History of technology in 2022 at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. His current research interest revolves around histories of transport, urban infrastructure and Global South urbanism. From 2018 to September 2023, Dr Edward worked as an assistant editor for Tanzania Zamani journal. From March 2024, he was appointed the managing editor of the new journal, Zamani: A Journal of African Historical Studies. He is also a member of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). Over years, he has attended numerous academic conferences in different countries organised by different global societies and associations on urban and technological histories of Dar es Salaam city and Global South. Dr Edward has also published in several journals including Technology and Culture, African Studies Review, Medical History, History of Science and Technology and Tanzania Zamani. Some of the recent publications is “Planned vulnerabilities: Street Flooding and Drainage Infrastructure in Colonial Dar es Salaam”, HoST 16 (1) (June 2022); and Circulation and appropriation of urban technologies: Drainage and Traffic Infrastructures in Dar es Salaam, 1913-1999 (Darmstadt 2023).