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Tanzania: A Political Economy (2nd ed.), chapter 22 ‘Ujamaa and Villagization’

Andrew Coulson · Oxford University Press · 2013

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Andrew Coulson

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DisputedFood-crop production fell and Tanzania imported large amounts of grain in 1974-76; the government blamed drought, while scholars weigh villagisation, pricing policy and the 1973-74 drought differently.TheoryJames C. Scott treats Tanzanian villagisation as a high-modernist scheme that disregarded local knowledge, while Coulson notes it made primary schools, dispensaries and water supplies easier to provide.