Ujamaa, villagisation and rural development in Tanzania
Hyden, G.
ODI Review 1: 53-72
1975
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7679.1975.tb00439.xDocument Number: 370102
The experience of Tanzania's ujamaa village programme is reviewed. The article deals primarily with the original programme which, in the period 1967-1973, affected approximately 15 per cent. of Tanzania's population, but reference is also made to the more recent villagization policy, initiated in 1974, which grew out of the experiences of the original ujamaa programme, and which, while not yet completed, has touched on the life of approximately half of Tanzania's population. Finally, some implications of Tanzania's bold attempt to tackle rural development are discussed.