Tanzania's Political Culture
Author: Rwekaza Sympho Mukandala
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 352
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Political Culture and Popular Participation in Tanzania
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Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Research and Education for Democracy in Tanzania project is based at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Dar es Salaam. This is the second in a series of publications documenting scholarly opinions and research findings. Issues relating to Tanzania's political trends are discussed, with a focus on the political environment and processes that surrounded the run up to the October 1995 general elections. It brings together analytical discussions on why Tanzania is yet to establish an enlightened civil society, the weaknesses and prospects of the new political parties, and the gender imbalances and disadvantaged position of women as political actors.
Political Culture in Tanzania
Author: Michael Okema
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the specific political orientations of Tanzania: attitudes toward the political system and its various parts, and attitudes toward the role of the self in the system.
Culture and Customs of Tanzania
Author: Kefa M. Otiso
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2013-01-24
Total Pages: 441
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a fascinating, up-to-date overview of the social, cultural, economic, and political landscapes of Tanzania. In Culture and Customs of Tanzania, author Kefa M. Otiso presents an approachable basic overview of the country's key characteristics, covering topics such as Tanzania's land, peoples, languages, education system, resources, occupations, economy, government, and history. This recent addition to Greenwood's Culture and Customs of Africa series also contains chapters that portray the culture and social customs of Tanzania, such as the country's religion and worldview; literature, film, and media; art, architecture, and housing; cuisine and traditional dress; gender roles, marriage, family structures, and lifestyle; and music, dance, and drama.
Performing the Nation
Author: Kelly Askew
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002-07-28
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 0226029816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince its founding in 1964, the United Republic of Tanzania has used music, dance, and other cultural productions as ways of imagining and legitimizing the new nation. Focusing on the politics surrounding Swahili musical performance, Kelly Askew demonstrates the crucial role of popular culture in Tanzania's colonial and postcolonial history. As Askew shows, the genres of ngoma (traditional dance), dansi (urban jazz), and taarab (sung Swahili poetry) have played prominent parts in official articulations of "Tanzanian National Culture" over the years. Drawing on over a decade of research, including extensive experience as a taarab and dansi performer, Askew explores the intimate relations among musical practice, political ideology, and economic change. She reveals the processes and agents involved in the creation of Tanzania's national culture, from government elites to local musicians, poets, wedding participants, and traffic police. Throughout, Askew focuses on performance itself—musical and otherwise—as key to understanding both nation-building and interpersonal power dynamics.
People's Representatives
Author: Rwekaza Sympho Mukandala
Publisher: Fountain Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 218
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFull parliamentary democracy did not come quickly or easily to Tanzania. In 1962, the first constitution of Tanzania as an independent republic shifted power from parliament to the executive: specifically to the presidency. In 1965, the interim constitution further eroded the powers of parliament in favour of a one party state, controlled by the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU). Parliament became little more than a token, rubber-stamping organisation. This multi-contributory study traces the development of multi-party democracy in Tanzania from the appointment of the first two chiefs to Tanganyika's colonial Legislative Council in 1945 to the present day. It highlights the struggle for supremacy between parliament and the executive during the period from 1968 to 1992, when parliament began to assert itself as a vibrant multi-party institution.
Changing Politics and Political Culture in Tanzania
Author: Willy Lazaro Mbunju Komba
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Published: 1996
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemocracy and Dictatorship in Ghana and Tanzania
Author: R. Pinkney
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1997-05-29
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0230379583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the evolution of democracy in Ghana and Tanzania, following long periods of single-party and military rule, and looks at the current and potential obstacles to democratic development. After discussing the nature of democracy, the author goes on to consider the conditions which have made the emergence of multi-party politics possible in Ghana and Tanzania. The book looks at the balance of forces between governments and campaigners for pluralist democracy, and at the outcomes that emerged.
The Development State
Author: Maia Green
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 184701108X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA timely, ethnographically informed account of the "development state" of Tanzania, showing how development practice and culture have become integrated into everyday life, politically, socially and economically. How has development affected the practices of the state in Africa? How has the development state become the basis of social organisation? How do Tanzanians position themselves to obtain aid money to effect change in their personallives? Financial aid flows have entrenched an economy of intervention in which the main beneficiaries are those who can claim to undertake development activities. Even for those not formally engaged in the development sector, its discourses influence everyday discussion about class and inequality, poverty and wealth, modernity and tradition. With Tanzania as the country focus, the author shows how the practices of development have infiltrated not only the state at large but many aspects of people's everyday lives. Maia Green is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.
Fixing the African State
Author: B. Dill
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-03-27
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1137281413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommunity-based development' (CBD) or'community-driven development' (CDD) has been the predominant approach to international development in recent years. Drawing on fieldwork and first-hand experience, this book explains why CBD/CDD produces outcomes that are incompatible with its underlying assumptions and intended objectives.
