Tanzania under Mwalimu Nyerere: Reflections on an African Statesman
Author: Godfrey Mwakikagile
Paperback: 220 pages
Publisher: New Africa Press (28 November 2006)
ISBN-10: 0980253497
ISBN-13: 978-0980253498
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Book Description:
Nyerere's economic policies, his successes and failures in pursuit of economic development under socialism, are some of the subjects addressed by the author in this book.
A Tanzanian himself, he also looks at how life was under Nyerere since the sixties.
The work is also a critical examination of the political situation in Tanzania since independence when the country was known as Tanganyika before uniting with Zanzibar.
The author also looks at the transition that has taken place in Tanzania from one-party rule to multiparty democracy, and from socialism to capitalism since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
He also takes a critical look at globalisation and the negative impact of structural adjustment programmes in Tanzania and Africa as a whole.
The work is also a study of Tanzanian history since the advent of colonial rule and of the struggle for independence in one of Africa's largest countries in terms of area and population.
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