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AfricanSocialisminPostcolonialTanzania BetweentheVillageandtheWorld Drawing on a wide range of oral and written sources, this book tells the story of Tanzania’s socialist experiment: the ujamaa villagization initiativeof1967–75.Inauguratedshortlyafterindependence,ujamaa (“familyhood” in Swahili) both invoked established socialist themes and departed from the existing global repertoire of development pol- icy, 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 documentshowvillagizationunfoldedontheground,withoutaffixing theprojecttoatrajectoryofinevitablefailure.Byforginganempirically rich and conceptually nuanced account of ujamaa, African Socialism inPostcolonialTanzaniarestoresasenseofpossibilityandprocessto the early years of African independence, refines prevailing theories of nation building and development, and expands our understanding of the1960sand1970sworld. PriyaLalisAssistantProfessorofHistoryatBostonCollege.Herwork has been published in the Journal of African History, Africa: Journal oftheInternationalAfricanInstitute,andHumanity. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Pittsburgh, on 26 Feb 2020 at 14:02:25, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316221679 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Pittsburgh, on 26 Feb 2020 at 14:02:25, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316221679 African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania Between the Village and the World PRIYA LAL BostonCollege Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Pittsburgh, on 26 Feb 2020 at 14:02:25, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316221679 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,ny10013-2473,usa CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107104525 (cid:2)C PriyaLal2015 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2015 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Lal,Priya,author. AfricansocialisminpostcolonialTanzania:betweenthevillageand theworld/PriyaLal,BostonCollege. pagescm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-1-107-10452-5 1.Ujamaavillages–Tanzania. 2.Socialism–Tanzania. 3.Ruraldevelopment– Tanzania. 4.Tanzania–History–1964– I.Title. hx771.3.a3l35 2015 307.7709678(cid:3)09045–dc23 2015002307 isbn978-1-107-10452-5Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyofurlsfor externalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhispublicationanddoesnot guaranteethatanycontentonsuchWebsitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Pittsburgh, on 26 Feb 2020 at 14:02:25, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316221679 AfricanSocialisminPostcolonialTanzania BetweentheVillageandtheWorld Drawing on a wide range of oral and written sources, this book tells the story of Tanzania’s socialist experiment: the ujamaa villagization initiativeof1967–75.Inauguratedshortlyafterindependence,ujamaa (“familyhood” in Swahili) both invoked established socialist themes and departed from the existing global repertoire of development pol- icy, 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 documentshowvillagizationunfoldedontheground,withoutaffixing theprojecttoatrajectoryofinevitablefailure.Byforginganempirically rich and conceptually nuanced account of ujamaa, African Socialism inPostcolonialTanzaniarestoresasenseofpossibilityandprocessto the early years of African independence, refines prevailing theories of nation building and development, and expands our understanding of the1960sand1970sworld. PriyaLalisAssistantProfessorofHistoryatBostonCollege.Herwork has been published in the Journal of African History, Africa: Journal oftheInternationalAfricanInstitute,andHumanity. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Pittsburgh, on 26 Feb 2020 at 14:02:26, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316221679 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Pittsburgh, on 26 Feb 2020 at 14:02:26, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316221679 African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania Between the Village and the World PRIYA LAL BostonCollege Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Pittsburgh, on 26 Feb 2020 at 14:02:26, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316221679 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,ny10013-2473,usa CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107104525 (cid:2)C PriyaLal2015 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2015 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Lal,Priya,author. AfricansocialisminpostcolonialTanzania:betweenthevillageand theworld/PriyaLal,BostonCollege. pagescm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-1-107-10452-5 1.Ujamaavillages–Tanzania. 2.Socialism–Tanzania. 3.Ruraldevelopment– Tanzania. 4.Tanzania–History–1964– I.Title. hx771.3.a3l35 2015 307.7709678(cid:3)09045–dc23 2015002307 isbn978-1-107-10452-5Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyofurlsfor externalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhispublicationanddoesnot guaranteethatanycontentonsuchWebsitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Pittsburgh, on 26 Feb 2020 at 14:02:26, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316221679 AfricanSocialisminPostcolonialTanzania BetweentheVillageandtheWorld Drawing on a wide range of oral and written sources, this book tells the story of Tanzania’s socialist experiment: the ujamaa villagization initiativeof1967–75.Inauguratedshortlyafterindependence,ujamaa (“familyhood” in Swahili) both invoked established socialist themes and departed from the existing global repertoire of development pol- icy, 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 documentshowvillagizationunfoldedontheground,withoutaffixing theprojecttoatrajectoryofinevitablefailure.Byforginganempirically rich and conceptually nuanced account of ujamaa, African Socialism inPostcolonialTanzaniarestoresasenseofpossibilityandprocessto the early years of African independence, refines prevailing theories of nation building and development, and expands our understanding of the1960sand1970sworld. PriyaLalisAssistantProfessorofHistoryatBostonCollege.Herwork has been published in the Journal of African History, Africa: Journal oftheInternationalAfricanInstitute,andHumanity. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Pittsburgh, on 26 Feb 2020 at 14:02:25, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316221679 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Pittsburgh, on 26 Feb 2020 at 14:02:25, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316221679
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