Toward 'Uhuru' in Tanzania
The Politics of Participation

The author presents a micropolitical study of an important region of one of East Africa's Rew nations.

G. Andrew Maguire (Author)

9780521102032, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 December 2008

436 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.55 kg

In the belief that intensive study of selected local areas is an important development in scholarship on Africa, the author presents a micropolitical study of an important region of one of East Africa's Rew nations. Sukumaland, an area of Tanzania which contains one tenth of the country's population and its largest tribe, was chosen for the study. Before independence it exhibited the most organized nationalist political activity of any part of the country and developed the largest African-owned co-operative movement in all of Africa. In the final decade of the colonial era Sukumaland was the British administration's principal experimental area for attempts at radical transformation of indigenous political institutions and traditional agricultural techniques. After independence it became a critical testing ground for President Julius Nyerere's concepts of African socialism.

Part I. The Setting: 1. Historical Background
2. The Administration: Postwar Political and Economic Development
Part II. The Beginnings of Indigenous Politics: 3. Incipient Political Activity
4. Traders, Cotton Cooperatives and Politics
5. Politics Achieved: TAA and the Sukuma Union
Part III. The Struggle For Power: 6. Administration Opposition, African Counteroffensives and Proscription of TANU
7. The Crisis in Geita
8. Repercussions and the Reopening of TANU
Part IV. The New Regime: 9. Toward Independence
10. Post-Independence Politics and Administration.

Subject Areas: General & world history [HBG]