African socialism in postcolonial Tanzania : between the village and the world / Priya Lal (Boston College).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lal, Priya, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ujamaa villages--Tanzania.

Ujamaa villages.

Socialism--Tanzania.

Socialism.

Rural development--Tanzania.

Rural development.

Tanzania--History--1964-.

Tanzania.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 265 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

A postcolonial project in the Cold War world

Militants, mothers, and the national family

Uneven development and the region

Remembering villagization.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Dec 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-34949-7

1-316-35549-7

1-316-36189-6

1-316-36389-9

1-316-36489-5

1-316-36289-2

1-316-35849-6

1-316-22167-9