Toward ''Uhuru'' in Tanzania - The Politics of Participation

Klappentext The author presents a micropolitical study of an important region of one of East Africa's Rew nations. Zusammenfassung In the belief that intensive study of selected local areas is an important development in scholarship on Africa! the author presents a micropolitical study of an important region of one of East Africa's Rew nations. Sukumaland! an area of Tanzania which contains one tenth of the country's population and its largest tribe! was chosen for the study. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Setting: 1. Historical Background; 2. The Administration: Postwar Political and Economic Development; Part II. The Beginnings of Indigenous Politics: 3. Incipient Political Activity; 4. Traders, Cotton Cooperatives and Politics; 5. Politics Achieved: TAA and the Sukuma Union; Part III. The Struggle For Power: 6. Administration Opposition, African Counteroffensives and Proscription of TANU; 7. The Crisis in Geita; 8. Repercussions and the Reopening of TANU; Part IV. The New Regime: 9. Toward Independence; 10. Post-Independence Politics and Administration.

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• Authors: G. Andrew Maguire, Maguire G. Andrew
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521102032
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10203-2
• No. of pages: 436
• Series: Cambridge Commonwealth; Cambridge Commonwealth Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Africa / General, General & world history, General and world history