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In the 1960s, the newly formed Tanzanian government emphasized a progressive vision for the rural poor and their empowerment. Although high expectations were placed on planned villages, this massive social engineering experiment failed to improve Tanzanian lives. In this new analysis of the ujamaa village project, Leander Schneider traces the public discourse that authorized state officials to direct life in the villages, by coercive means if necessary. Schneider unmasks Tanzanian development as benevolent despotism and argues that the politics of development was a practice that went far beyond the interests of individual or collective actors.
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Finalist, 2015 African Studies Association Ogot Award
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Leander Schneider is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Concordia University.
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- PublisherIndiana University Press
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0253013976
- ISBN 13 9780253013972
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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Government of Development: Peasants and Politicians in Postcolonial Tanzania
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