[PDF] African Socialism In Practice eBook

Author : Priya Lal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 36,91 MB
Release : 2015-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107104521

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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 1967-75. 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.

Author : Ronald Aminzade
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107622364

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Nationalism has generated violence, bloodshed, and genocide, as well as patriotic sentiments that encourage people to help fellow citizens and place public responsibilities above personal interests. This study explores the contradictory character of African nationalism as it unfolded over decades of Tanzanian history in conflicts over public policies concerning the rights of citizens, foreigners, and the nation's Asian racial minority. These policy debates reflected a history of racial oppression and foreign domination and were shaped by a quest for economic development, racial justice, and national self-reliance.

Author : C. M. Hann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134889399

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Socialism as a political system may be on the wane, yet no one can doubt that its cultural legacies will make themselves felt for years to come, and on a worldwide scale. The contributors to this volume adopt a variety of anthropological approaches to illuminate changes which have removed socialists from power in many countries. Presenting detailed ethnographic accounts across a wide range of countries, they bring out the factors which have given socialism such a profound worldwide impact, including a substantial impact upon the discipline of anthropology itself. The first sustained and wide-ranging investigation of socialism by social anthropologists, this volume will enable readers to understand better how socialism has been experienced by millions of people and thereby to now better understand how they may cope with post-socialist dilemmas.

Author : Christian P. Potholm
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,94 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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Author : Bede Onuoha
Publisher : London : A. Deutsch
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Africa
ISBN :

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Appeal of the socialist ideology and practical programs in fostering economic, social and spiritual growth described by a Nigerian Roman Catholic priest.