Love in the City: Navigating multiple relationships in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

While the vast majority of low-level professionals in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania would express a verbal commitment to modernist ideals of family structure, such as monogamy, in practice, a significant number have entered into mistress relationships which ultimately constitute second families. This reality demonstrates how Tanzanian urbanites have created hybrid conceptions of morality and codes for responsible conduct within romantic relationships, conceptions which draw upon both European and local African models. These practices provide insight into the contemporary historical and economic contexts of African city dwellers, as well as African urbanism as a whole.