On the Tracks of Ujamaa

Vestiges and Memories in a Former Socialist Village in Southern Tanzania

Bibliographic Data

ID9392862
AuthorsMarie-Aude Fouéré (0000-0002-7565-4231, École Pratique des Hautes Études, corresponding author)
TranslatorsHugo Clarke, Nancy Sabatier
Year2024
Volume59
Publication date2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLes Cahiers d Afrique de lEst (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2071-7245 • E-ISSN: 2790-1076
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/eastafrica.4382
OpenAlexW4393299341
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited42

In 1967, Tanzania was a “poor and heterogenous country suffering from instability worsened by almost a century of colonialism, first by the Germans, and then by the British” (Martin 1988, 26). That same year, it set out on an economic and social development path that deeply transformed its historical trajectory: Ujamaa, in Kiswahili, or “African socialism” in its official English translation. The “Tanzanian experiment” of socialism (Lonsdale 1968) led to extensive academic literature. Some o

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