Independent?: Tanzania's challenges since Uhuru
2007 (English)Book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
This book describes the history and challenges facing Tanzania through the voices and memories of Tanzanians and through their visions and ideas about the challenges Tanzania faces today. It is a story of set backs and disappointments, but also of pride. Among those interviewed are leading politicians, activists and researchers, but also ordinary everyday Tanzanians - farmers, workers, grandfathers and grandmothers, active and retired civil servants - are interviewed. The statements are used thematically in chapters forcusing on the various challenges that have faced Tanzania: from insufficient focus on agriculture to the menace of corruption; from socialism to capitalism and from the role of the family to the importance of religion. There is a strong focus on the limitation of independence. Tanzania is independent, but there is no true independence in a globalized world.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Dar es Salaam: E & D Vision Publishing Ltd.; Nordiska Afrikainstitutet , 2007. , p. 213
Keywords [en]
Political development, Social change, Governance, Socialism, Economic and social development, Globalization, Post-independence, Tanzania
National Category
Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies)
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-511ISBN: 9987-411-59-2; 978-9987-411-59-7; 978-91-7106-590-2 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:nai-511DiVA, id: diva2:275035
Note
CONTENTS -- A new state full of hope -- An agricultural island whose only export is people -- Here the new economy is booming -- "If only people could die in a sustainable way" -- Dreams and fear -- "We followed Nyerere without question" -- A socialist country without socialists -- "We prefer not to talk about agriculture" -- The failure of the school policy -- Maybe the extended family is disappearing -- Corruption has become a quality of leadership -- Harmony continues, but conflicts are becoming sharper -- "We're still in harness!" -- Socialists of the new times -- The irrefutable and impossible challenge
2009-11-022009-11-022025-09-12Bibliographically approved