Independent? : Tanzania's challenges since Uhuru

Abstract

This book describes the history and challenges facing Tanzania through the voices and memories of Tanzanians and through their visions and ideas about the challenges Tanzania faces today. It is a story of set backs and disappointments, but also of pride. Among those interviewed are leading politicians, activists and researchers, but also ordinary everyday Tanzanians - farmers, workers, grandfathers and grandmothers, active and retired civil servants - are interviewed. The statements are used thematically in chapters forcusing on the various challenges that have faced Tanzania: from insufficient focus on agriculture to the menace of corruption; from socialism to capitalism and from the role of the family to the importance of religion. There is a strong focus on the limitation of independence. Tanzania is independent, but there is no true independence in a globalized world.

CONTENTS -- A new state full of hope -- An agricultural island whose only export is people -- Here the new economy is booming -- "If only people could die in a sustainable way" -- Dreams and fear -- "We followed Nyerere without question" -- A socialist country without socialists -- "We prefer not to talk about agriculture" -- The failure of the school policy -- Maybe the extended family is disappearing -- Corruption has become a quality of leadership -- Harmony continues, but conflicts are becoming sharper -- "We're still in harness!" -- Socialists of the new times -- The irrefutable and impossible challenge