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Title:Tanzania's Operation Vijiji and Local Ecological Consciousness: The Case of Eastern Iraqwland, 1974-1976
Author:Lawi, Yusufu Q.ISNI
Year:2007
Periodical:The Journal of African History
Volume:48
Issue:1
Period:March
Pages:69-93
Language:English
Geographic term:Tanzania
Subjects:environment
villagization
cosmology
Iraqw
History and Exploration
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Politics and Government
Development and Technology
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/4501017
Abstract:Tanzania's Ujamaa villagization campaign of 1973-1976 was one of the greatest social experiments in postcolonial Africa. Occurring during a time of continuing hope for a better future for the nation, the experiment aimed to improve the lives of the majority of rural Tanzanians. Despite this noble intention, the attempt at rural modernization failed miserably in many respects. Discussions of these failures have tended to give prominence to tangible explanations, ignoring more nuanced and qualitative issues, including environmental concerns based on local cosmologies. In an attempt to fill this gap, the present article uses a case study of eastern Iraqwland in northern Tanzania to explore local articulations of the compulsory villagization campaign and to interpret them in light of ecological perspectives that were prevalent at the time in Iraqw village communities. Notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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