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African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania : Between the Village and the World by Priya Lal is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Priya Lal
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9781316221679
Category
history
Subjects
History, Sociology, Social Science
Updated
2026-03-25

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