Voluntarism, Virtuous Citizenship, and Nation-Building in Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial Tanzania

This article offers a historical perspective on the concept of voluntarism in modern Africa. It does so by exploring the ways in which postcolonial states grappled with the legacies of colonial-era concepts of voluntarism, using Tanzania as a case study. It argues that the postcolonial state sought to combine two strands of colonial thinking about voluntarism in a new conception of "virtuous citizenship." But this was a fragile construction, and the language of voluntarism could bring to light divisions in society that many would have preferred to keep hidden

Citizenship · Colonialism · Epistemology · Ethnology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Tanzania · Voluntarism (philosophy · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Law · Philosophy

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