TY - BOOK ID - 85463503 TI - African socialism in postcolonial Tanzania : between the village and the world PY - 2015 SN - 1316355497 1316361896 1316363899 1316364895 1316362892 1316358496 1316221679 1107104521 1107507006 1316349497 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Ujamaa villages KW - Socialism KW - Rural development KW - Ujamaa vijijini KW - Villages, Ujamaa KW - Collective settlements KW - Tanzania KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85463503 AB - 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 1967-1975. 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 into communal villages to achieve national development. Priya Lal investigates how Tanzanian leaders and rural people creatively envisioned ujamaa and documents how villagization unfolded on the ground, without affixing the project to a trajectory of inevitable failure. By forging an empirically rich and conceptually nuanced account of ujamaa, African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania restores a sense of possibility and process to the early years of African independence, refines prevailing theories of nation building and development, and expands our understanding of the 1960s and 70s world. ER -