Resettlement and Desertification
The Wagogo of Dodoma District, Tanzania
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4855783 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adolfo C Mascarenhas, Adolfo Mascarenhas (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 376 |
| Publication date | 1977-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/142977 |
| OpenAlex | W2044405800 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Dodoma, a region in central Tanzania, a smaller component administrative unit, and also the principal town in the region, symbolizes to many, even in Tanzania, a semi-arid area. Most of the region is classified by climatologists as semi-arid because its precipitation lies in the lower quartile. It receives an average rainfall of 200-600 mm per annum. Merely on this average figure pure agriculture is precluded. The part inhabited by the Wagogo, known as Gogoland, covers most of Dodoma District. It lies on an upland plateau of 3,000 feet and more, and comprises less than two percent of Tanzania's area and a slightly higher percentage of its population. In the 1967 population census the area had 300,000 people or 2.6 percent of the country's population. Before the arrival of the Europeans the Wagogo had no centralized political system but consisted of numerous clans who lived in ritual areas. Within each ritual area there were several neighborhoods consisting of scattered homesteads, although occasionally the neighborhoods comprised a cluster of homesteads. Land was inherited but held by usufructuary rights. WAGOGO LIVELIHOOD
Biology · Desertification · Environmental planning · Geography · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Tanzania · African history and culture analysis · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1982 - 1993 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |