Table Of ContentAfricanSocialisminPostcolonialTanzania
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.
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African Socialism in
Postcolonial Tanzania
Between the Village and the World
PRIYA LAL
BostonCollege
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AfricansocialisminpostcolonialTanzania:betweenthevillageand
theworld/PriyaLal,BostonCollege.
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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
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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.
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African Socialism in
Postcolonial Tanzania
Between the Village and the World
PRIYA LAL
BostonCollege
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terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316221679
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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.
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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
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