Editing Dar es Salaam (section)

==Government==
[[File:The front view of Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre in Dar es Salaam.jpg|thumb|The Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre in [[Kivukoni]]]]
{{See also|List of mayors of Dar es Salaam}}

In his 1979 journal ''A Modern History of Tanganyika'', historian [[John Iliffe (historian)|John Iliffe]] wrote, "In 1949 the town became a municipality...[with] four honourable nominated Town Councillors who elected a Mayor."<ref>{{cite book |author=John Iliffe |author-link=John Iliffe (historian) |title=Modern History of Tanganyika |year=1979 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-29611-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m0dalboHfXgC |series=African Studies Series |access-date=2017-09-08 |archive-date=2016-05-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506013245/https://books.google.com/books?id=m0dalboHfXgC |url-status=live }}</ref> According to ''Associational Life in African Cities: Popular Responses to the Urban Crisis'', published in 2001: "Until June 1996, Dar es Salaam was managed by the Dar es Salaam City Council...the highest policy-making body in the city."<ref>{{cite book |editor=Arne Tostensen |title=Associational Life in African Cities: Popular Responses to the Urban Crisis |year=2001 |publisher=[[Nordiska Afrikainstitutet]] |location=Sweden |isbn=978-91-7106-465-3 |chapter=Reactions to Deteriorating Provision of Public Services in Dar es Salaam |author1=R. Mhamba |author2=C. Titus |url=https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-225 |page=218+ |display-editors=etal |access-date=2017-09-08 |archive-date=2020-07-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731140504/https://books.google.com/books?id=H7ZOn1GxtbgC |url-status=live }}</ref> As of 2017, [[Paul Makonda]] serves as the commissioner of Dar es Salaam Region.