African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania

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...