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| ujamaa in tanzania: Ujamaa Ralph Ibbott, 2014-11-20 |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania Goran Hyden, 2023-11-10 Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania: Underdevelopment and an Uncaptured Peasantry explores the challenges of development and underdevelopment in Africa, with a focus on Tanzania's experience during its early socialist years. The book critiques the dominant ideologies of development, whether capitalist or socialist, as being rooted in Western industrial paradigms that often fail to address the realities of pre-capitalist African societies. It argues that the underdevelopment in Africa is not solely due to excessive penetration by global capitalism but also to capitalism's inability to dismantle the resilient pre-capitalist structures in many rural societies. The author highlights the role of the Tanzanian peasantry, whose economic and social autonomy often resists the centralizing tendencies of modern development, presenting them not as mere appendages to the global economy but as key players with their own modes of production and unique societal structures. The book is grounded in over a decade of fieldwork and engagement with rural Tanzanian communities, enriched by the author’s fluency in Swahili and deep involvement in local life. It argues for a more nuanced approach to studying African societies, one that goes beyond Western assumptions and models. By placing the peasant mode of production at the center of analysis, the study challenges conventional wisdom and suggests that the primary development challenge in Africa lies not with multinational corporations but with understanding and working within the dynamics of the smallholder peasant economy. The author also reflects on the limitations of conventional social science research and calls for greater involvement in the lived realities of the communities studied, emphasizing the need for research methods that are sensitive to local contexts and values. The book combines academic critique, field observations, and a focus on the epistemological biases of Western scholarship to present a compelling argument for rethinking development in Africa. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Tanzania and Nyerere William Redman Duggan, John R. Civille, 1976 Monograph on the economic and social development of Tanzania under ujamaa socialism - includes bibliography pp. 269 to 280, map and references. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Surrogates of the State Michael Jennings, 2008 * Uses an instructive historical event to show how NGOs with good intentions are sometimes capable of supporting harmful government policies * A fascinating picture of the players involved in misguided development program In Surrogates of the State Jennings explores the delicate relationship between development NGOs and the states they work in using his exhaustive and illuminating case study of Tanzania in the 1960s and 70s. During that time Tanzania instituted the rural socialist Ujamaa program, resulting in the forced resettlement of 6 million people to villages, transforming the map of the country. Rather than questioning this policy, NGOs working in the area (as typified by Oxfam) became surrogates of the state, helping to carry out the program. Jennings argues that the NGO community was seduced by its own interpretations of what Ujamaa represented, and was consequently blinded to the dark realities of resettlement. Bound by ideological chains of their own forging, organizations that in other contexts have criticized over-mighty states and the use of overt force, NGOs committed themselves fully to Tanzania and its development policy. Through this study, the book uncovers not just the story of development in Tanzania in this critical period, but the history of the NGO itself. And in doing so, raises questions about the future direction of this institution which has become so prominent in international development. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania Priya Lal, 2017-07-27 Drawing on a wide range of oral and written sources, this book tells the story of Tanzania's socialist experiment: the ujamaa villagization initiative of 1967-1975. Inaugurated shortly after independence, ujamaa ('familyhood' in Swahili) both invoked established socialist themes and departed from the existing global repertoire of development policy, seeking to reorganize the Tanzanian countryside into communal villages to achieve national development. Priya Lal investigates how Tanzanian leaders and rural people creatively envisioned ujamaa and documents how villagization unfolded on the ground, without affixing the project to a trajectory of inevitable failure. By forging an empirically rich and conceptually nuanced account of ujamaa, African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania restores a sense of possibility and process to the early years of African independence, refines prevailing theories of nation building and development, and expands our understanding of the 1960s and 70s world. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Remembering Nyerere in Tanzania Collectif, 2020-12-14 This edited volume is about the rekindled investment in the figure of the first president Julius K. Nyerere in contemporary Tanzania. It explores how Nyerere is remembered by Tanzanians from different levels of society, in what ways and for what purposes. Looking into what Nyerere means and stands for today, it provides insight into the media, the political arena, poetry, the education sector, or street-corner talks. The main argument of this book is that Nyerere has become a widely shared political metaphor used to debate and contest conceptions of the Tanzanian nation and Tanzanian-ness. The state-citizens relationship, the moral standards for the exercise of power, and the contours of national sentiment are under scrutiny when the figure of Nyerere is mobilized today. The contributions gathered here come from a generation of budding or renown scholars in varied disciplines (history, anthropology, political science). Drawing upon materials collected through extensive fieldwork and archival research, they all critically engage the existing literature about Tanzania and prevailing political narratives to explore how nationhood is (re)imagined in Tanzania today through assent and contest. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Street Archives and City Life Emily Callaci, 2017-10-24 In Street Archives and City Life Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid- to late twentieth-century Tanzanian urban landscapes. While the postcolonial Tanzanian ruling party (TANU) adopted a policy of rural socialism known as Ujamaa between 1967 and 1985, an influx of youth migrants to the city of Dar es Salaam generated innovative forms of urbanism through the production and circulation of what Callaci calls street archives. These urban intellectuals neither supported nor contested the ruling party's anti-city philosophy; rather, they navigated the complexities of inhabiting unplanned African cities during economic crisis and social transformation through various forms of popular texts that included women's Christian advice literature, newspaper columns, self-published pulp fiction novellas, and song lyrics. Through these textual networks, Callaci shows how youth migrants and urban intellectuals in Dar es Salaam fashioned a collective ethos of postcolonial African citizenship. This spirit ushered in a revolution rooted in the city and its networks—an urban revolution that arose in spite of the nation-state's pro-rural ideology. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: The Economics of Subsistence Agriculture Colin Clark, Margaret R. Haswell, 1970-09-17 |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Ujamaa Julius Kambarage Nyerere, 1968 |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania Emma Hunter, 2015-04-27 Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania is a study of the interplay of vernacular and global languages of politics in the era of decolonization in Africa. Decolonization is often understood as a moment when Western forms of political order were imposed on non-Western societies, but this book draws attention instead to debates over universal questions about the nature of politics, concept of freedom and the meaning of citizenship. These debates generated political narratives that were formed in dialogue with both global discourses and local political arguments. The United Nations Trusteeship Territory of Tanganyika, now mainland Tanzania, serves as a compelling example of these processes. Starting in 1945 and culminating with the Arusha Declaration of 1967, Emma Hunter explores political argument in Tanzania's public sphere to show how political narratives succeeded when they managed to combine promises of freedom with new forms of belonging at local and national level. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Towards Socialism in Tanzania B. U. Mwansasu, Cranford Pratt, 1981 |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Building a Peaceful Nation Paul Bjerk, 2015 A compelling account of the establishment of Tanzania's stable and ambitious government in the face of external threats and internal turmoil. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: "The smell of Ujamaa is still there" Daniel Mann, 2017-12-04 Fifty years after the Arusha Declaration, this book sets out to reevaluate one of the most important roots of Tanzania's Ujamaa Socialism: The Ruvuma Development Association. Based on a basic-democratic movement of young politicized farmers, this organization not only brought together up to 18 cooperative villages in southwestern Tanzania, it also became the inspiration for President Nyerere to put his vision of a modern socialist society built on the image of the traditional extended family into a concrete development model on national scale. Led by a participative understanding of empirical research, this explorative study has analyzed the local history of Ujamaa in three case study villages within Ruvuma. Through employing a mix of expert and narrative interviews, as well as group interviews and villager questionnaires, the study sheds new light on the local perceptions of Ujamaa history and communal development, as well as on the interrelations between local and national scale on Tanzania's path of development. It identifies the recent farmers' groups (vikundi) as some of the most important heirs to the Nation's socialist ideology and concludes that in many aspects the smell of Ujamaa is still there. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Seeing Like a State James C. Scott, 2020-03-17 One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.--John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as a magisterial critique of top-down social planning by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail--sometimes catastrophically--in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.--New Yorker A tour de force.-- Charles Tilly, Columbia University |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Two African Statesmen John Hatch, 1976 |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Nyerere Tom Molony, 2014 This book presents the first truly rounded portrait of Nyerere's early life, from his birth in 1922 until his graduation from Edinburgh in 1952, helping us to see his later political achievements in a new light. It was after returning to Tanganyika that 'Mwalimu' (the teacher) formally entered politics, and led efforts to deliver Tanganyika to independence.--Publishers website. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Development As Rebellion (PB Box Set) G. Shivji, Saida Yahya-Othman, 2020-05-18 This is the first comprehensive biography of Julius Nyerere, a national liberation leader, the first president of Tanzania and an outstanding statesman of Africa and the global south. Written by three prominent Tanzanians, the work spans over 1200 pages in three volumes. It delves into Nyerere's early days among his chiefly family, and the traditions, friends and education that moulded his philosophy and political thought. All these provide the backdrop for his entrance into nationalist politics, the founding of the independence movement and his original experiment with socialism. The work took six years to research and write, involving extensive and wide-ranging interviews with persons from all walks of life in Tanzania and abroad. Among these were several leaders in East and Southern Africa who were based in Dar es salaam during their liberation struggles. The authors also visited several British universities and archives with material related to Nyerere and Tanzania, thus enriching the work with primary sources that not available in Tanzania. The book does not shy away from a critical assessment of Nyerere's life and times. It reveals the philosopher ruler's dilemmas and tensions between freedom and necessity, determinism and voluntarism and, above all, between territorial nationalism and continental Pan-Africanism. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Tanzania's Ujamaa Villages Dean E. McHenry, 1979 This study is concerned with a particular policy which is important to countries faced with underdevelopment. This policy was initiated in Tanzania in 1967 with the aim of inducing the rural population to live and work together for the good of all. A decade later, virtually all scattered rural Tanzanians were living in villages and carrying on at least some activity collectively. The objectives are to slow the movement to towns, increase production, permit the introduction of new technology, increase peasant per capita income, reverse the trend towards greater inequality, provide better social services, encourage self-reliance, and reverse the trend towards centralization. One of the major difficulties in implementation was the frequent failure to analyse sufficiently the nature of peasant assessment of costs and benefits to be derived from compliance. The remunerative systems often discourage rather than encourage work. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Freedom and Socialism Julius K. Nyerere, 1968 |
| ujamaa in tanzania: State Ideology and Language in Tanzania Jan Blommaert, 2014-07-16 This book is a thoroughly revised version of the 1999 edition, which was welcomed at the time as a classic. It now extends the period of coverage to 2012 and includes an entirely new chapter on current developments, making this updated edition an essentia |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Government of Development Leander Schneider, 2014 This book is a publication of Indiana University Press, Office of Scholarly Publishing. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Villagers, Villages, and the State in Modern Tanzania R. G. Abrahams, 1985 Research papers on the position of Ujaama village development, rural communitys and state intervention in the modernization process, Tanzania - examines the articulation of communal land with household production, the effects of land nationalization, cooperative development and collective farming, the consequences of decision making transfer from local level to central government, role of ideology, leadership, bureaucracy and social controls, impact on rural development and the struggle for right of self determination. Chronology, references. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Ujamaa and Self-reliance , 1976 |
| ujamaa in tanzania: The Routledge Handbook of Translation History Christopher Rundle, 2021-09-30 The Routledge Handbook of Translation History presents the first comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of this multi-faceted disciplinary area and serves both as an introduction to carrying out research into translation and interpreting history and as a key point of reference for some of its main theoretical and methodological issues, interdisciplinary approaches, and research themes. The Handbook brings together 30 eminent international scholars from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, offering examples of the most innovative research while representing a wide range of approaches, themes, and cultural contexts. The Handbook is divided into four sections: the first looks at some key methodological and theoretical approaches; the second examines some of the key research areas that have developed an interdisciplinary dialogue with translation history; the third looks at translation history from the perspective of specific cultural and religious perspectives; and the fourth offers a selection of case studies on some of the key topics to have emerged in translation and interpreting history over the past 20 years. This Handbook is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of translation and interpreting history, translation theory, and related areas. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Democracy and the Party System Julius K. Nyerere, 1963 |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Freedom and development Julius Kambarage Nyerere, 1973 |
| ujamaa in tanzania: The Collapse of a Pastoral Economy Samwel Shanga Mhajida, 2019 This research unravels the economic collapse of the Datoga pastoralists of central and northern Tanzania from the 1830s to the beginning of the 21st century. The research builds from the broader literature on continental African pastoralism during the past two centuries. Overall, the literature suggests that African pastoralism is collapsing due to changing political and environmental factors. My dissertation aims to provide a case study adding to the general trends of African pastoralism, while emphasizing the topic of competition as not only physical, but as something that is ethnically negotiated through historical and collective memories. There are two main questions that have guided this project: 1) How is ethnic space defined by the Datoga and their neighbours across different historical times? And 2) what are the origins of the conflicts and violence and how have they been narrated by the state throughout history? Examining archival sources and oral interviews it is clear that the Datoga have struggled through a competitive history of claims on territory against other neighbouring communities. The competitive encounters began with the Maasai entering the Serengeti in the 19th century, and intensified with the introduction of colonialism in Mbulu and Singida in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The fight for control of land and resources resulted in violent clashes with other groups. Often the Datoga were painted as murderers and impediments to development. Policies like the amalgamation measures of the British colonial administration in Mbulu or Ujamaa in post-colonial Tanzania aimed at confronting the “Datoga problem,” but were inadequate in neither addressing the Datoga issues of identity, nor providing a solution to their quest for land ownership and control. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Man and Development Julius K. Nyerere, 1974 Pamphlet of statements on social change and economic development in Africa - discusses various aspects of human rights, equality and dignity in society, the tasks of the political party, non-alignment and the Church, the reason for choosing socialism in africa, etc. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: The Ujamaa Village Programme in Tanzania: New Forms of Rural Development Gerrit Huizer, 1971 Case study of 'ujamaa' rural cooperative villages in Tanzania illustrating a new form of rural development - outlines the role of the tanu political party under the political leadership of julius nyerere, describes the experimental village or ruvuma and covers financial aspects and administrative aspects, membership, leadership, community development, etc. References. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Africa's Liberation Chambi Chachage, Annar Cassam, 2010 |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Ujamaa--essays on Socialism Julius K. Nyerere, 1968 Essays discussing the author's ideology, a form of African socialism, Ujamaa ('family hood' in Swahili). It was the concept that formed the basis of his social and economic development policies in Tanzania after it gained independence from Britain in 1961. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Gender and Economic Growth in Tanzania , 2007 While Tanzania has been at the forefront of creating a positive legal framework and political context for gender equality, certain legal, regulatory, and administrative barriers still hinder women's full participation in private sector development. This report analyzes these barriers and makes recommendations for needed change, to ensure women's full contribution to private sector development and economic growth in Tanzania. Building on intensive stakeholder consultations and the findings of numerous studies, notably the MKURABITA diagnostic and the 2003/4 Investment Climate Assessments for Tanzania and Zanzibar, this report examines these gender-related barriers to growth and investment. It highlights legal and administrative constraints that have a disproportionately negative effect on female-headed businesses, and makes recommendations for needed reforms. Addressing these issues would not only help unlock the full economic potential of women, but would help improve the environment for all businesses in Tanzania. While Tanzania's economic growth has been strong, this report finds that if the country were to bring female secondary schooling and female total years of schooling to the same level as now enjoyed by males, this could produce up to an additional annual percentage point of growth - a valuable contribution to achieving the 6-8 percent annual growth targets of the National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP or MKUKUTA). |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Changing the Rules Aili Mari Tripp, 2023-04-28 Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania provides a comprehensive examination of Tanzania's informal economy, highlighting its critical role as both a survival mechanism and a force for political and economic change. Amid the economic crises of the 1980s, Tanzanians increasingly turned to informal activities to bridge the vast gap between formal wages and the cost of living. This shift not only redefined economic participation but also challenged the statist and socialist frameworks that had dominated Tanzania's post-independence policies. The book explores how the informal economy reshaped dependencies, strengthened grassroots initiatives, and exerted pressure on the state to adapt through liberalization and reform. The study delves into the socio-political dynamics underlying this transformation, from the emergence of new economic practices to the state’s reluctant acknowledgment of these activities. By documenting the interplay between everyday resistance and policy shifts, the book reveals how informal economic strategies undermined restrictive state norms and forced significant institutional changes. Through chapters that analyze household dynamics, gendered economic roles, and shifting state-society relations, the author presents a nuanced picture of how Tanzanians redefined survival and governance. This book is essential for understanding how grassroots economic adaptations can drive systemic transformation in developing nations. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: The Travails of a Tanzanian Teacher Karim F Hirji, 2018-04 A riveting account of the first decade of the work of a retired Professor of Medical Statistics. Filled with a variety of eye-opening episodes, it covers lecturing at the University of Dar es Salaam, the life of a political exile in a remote rural area and the challenges of setting up from scratch a one-of-a-kind educational institute in Africa. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Tanzania Jannik Boesen, 1986 Research papers, development policy, economic and social development, failures, Tanzania - population growth, economic recession, manufacturing, agriculture, farming, economic policy; erosion control, fuelwood, macroeconomics, agricultural mechanization, green revolution, rural women, small scale industry, handicrafts, water supply, health service, ILO mentioned. Graphs, maps, references, statistical tables. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Where is Uhuru? Issa G. Shivji, 2009-04 Neoliberal policies promised to correct multiple distortions in postcolonial Africa. But democratic politics, land reform, rights and freedom all suffered. Shivji calls for Africa-centred thinking that embraces the continent's right to self-determination. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Peasants, Collectives, and Choice Louis G. Putterman, 1986 Tests the voluntary collectivisation hypothesis by applying models of economic behaviour in collective agricultural enterprises to the understanding of the Tanzanian experience; analyses the problems met by Tanzania in its aim of self-transformation into a nation of collective villages. |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Ujamaa Villages in Tanzania Dean E. McHenry, 1981 |
| ujamaa in tanzania: Mwalimu Colin Legum, G. R. V. Mmari, 1995 International figures such as Father Huddleston and Sir Shridath Ramphal join with Tanzanian scholars to assess, not without criticism, the influential contribution of Julius Nyerere both within his own country and across the Third World. Part One provides an overview of the man and his thought. Part Two focuses on those areas of policy in which Nyerere took a particular interest. Part Three concentrates on the major social, economic and political issues that have been central to the unique Tanzanian experience - unique because of the exceptional man who shaped the first quarter of a century of independence. |
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