African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania: Between the Village and the World

by Priya Lal

Book Overview

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 1967-75. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107507006
• ISBN13: 9781107507005
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"