General Information

Author/Creator

Maguire, G. Andrew (Gene Andrew).

Language

English.

Published

London : Cambridge U.P., 1969.

Physical Description

xxxi, 403 p. : 2 maps. ; 22 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

In the belief that intensive study of selected local areas is an important development in scholarship on Africa, the author presents a micropolitical study of an important region of one of East Africa's Rew nations. Sukumaland, an area of Tanzania which contains one tenth of the country's population and its largest tribe, was chosen for the study. Before independence it exhibited the most organized nationalist political activity of any part of the country and developed the largest African-owned co-operative movement in all of Africa. In the final decade of the colonial era Sukumaland was the British administration's principal experimental area for attempts at radical transformation of indigenous political institutions and traditional agricultural techniques. After independence it became a critical testing ground for President Julius Nyerere's concepts of African socialism.

Subjects

Subject

Sukuma region.

Tanzania > Politics and government.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

[by] G. Andrew Maguire.

Series

Cambridge Commonwealth series

Library Special Collection

HU OSA 300 - RFE/RL collection

ISBN

0521076528

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	320.9/678/2 MAG		OSA Repository	-

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