Toward 'Uhuru' in Tanzania: The Politics of Participation

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Toward 'Uhuru' in Tanzania: The Politics of Participation
Authors and Contributors      By (author) G. Andrew Maguire
SeriesCambridge Commonwealth Series
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:436
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreWorld history
World history - BCE to c 500 CE
World history - c 500 to C 1500
World history - c 1500 to c 1750
World history - c 1750 to c 1900
World history - from c 1900 to now
ISBN/Barcode 9780521102032
ClassificationsDewey:320.967809
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 18 December 2008
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

In the belief that intensive study of selected local areas is an important development in scholarship on Africa, the author presents a micropolitical study of an important region of one of East Africa's Rew nations. Sukumaland, an area of Tanzania which contains one tenth of the country's population and its largest tribe, was chosen for the study. Before independence it exhibited the most organized nationalist political activity of any part of the country and developed the largest African-owned co-operative movement in all of Africa. In the final decade of the colonial era Sukumaland was the British administration's principal experimental area for attempts at radical transformation of indigenous political institutions and traditional agricultural techniques. After independence it became a critical testing ground for President Julius Nyerere's concepts of African socialism.