Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania: Underdevelopment and an Uncaptured Peasantry

Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania: Underdevelopment and an Uncaptured Peasantry explores the challenges of development and underdevelopment in Africa, with a focus on Tanzania's experience during its early socialist years. The book critiques the dominant ideologies of development, whether capitalist or socialist, as being rooted in Western industrial paradigms that often fail to address the realities of pre-capitalist African societies. It argues that the underdevelopment in Africa is not solely du...