Tanzania's Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM), the oldest ruling party in Africa, has managed two complex transitions - from the socialist experiment of ujamaa to a market economy in the mid-1980s, and from a one-party state to multipartism in the early 1990s - without putting at risk its control over the country's state institutions. Drawing on the literature on the 'limit...

Analyses of Tanzania's support for the national liberation struggles of Southern Africa often neglect to consider its impact on the government's state-building strategy and socialist development vision. This article contributes to a re-examination of Tanzania's policy towards the decolonisation of Southern Africa through the analysis of the relations between the in...