Tanzania, ujamaa villagization

We shall examine in some detail two notorious schemes of agrarian simplification—collectivization in Soviet Russia and ujamaa villages in Tanzania—searching both for the larger political logic of their design and for the reasons behind their manifold failures as schemes of production. First, however, it may help to provide a schematic illustration of this process from the history of Southeast Asia, which reveals a... 

Plan for a ujamaa village Makazi Mapya, Omulunazi, Rushwa, Tanzania... 

See Dean E. McHenry, Jr., Tanzania s Ujamaa Villages The Implementation of a Rural Development Strategy, Research Series no. 39 (Berkeley Berkeley Institute of International Studies, 1979), p. 136 Mwapachu, Operation Planned Villages Kalabaro Miti, Whither Tanzania (New Delhi Ajanta, 1987), pp. 73-89. 

Elsewhere, in Tanga for example, there are cases of "Potemkin villages being created for a Nyerere visit and dismantled later. See Hyden, Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania, pp. 101-8. 

Neither in Nyerere s speeches at this time nor in official reports in the press were such numbers often linked to indices of rural transformation such as mortality rates, income, consumption, etc. See Jannik Boesen, Tanzania From Ujamaa to Villagization, in Mwansasu and Pratt, Towards Socialism in Tanzania, p. 128. 

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