Nakuunga mkono ndugu yangu, mfano mzuri ni huo hapo chini toka ktk article flani hivi.......... hiyo ni pick ya paragraph mbili tu ambazo zina dissect Tanzania, ukweli ni kwamba li-ujamaa la Nyerere ndio limeua "timu". James Carville angesema' "it's ujamaa stupid."!!!! Well, mtu anaweza ku-spin atakavyo...............
In fact, ujamaa villages were generally failures as satisfactory human communities and, above all, as units of production. What the high-modernist planners of the Tanzanian state failed to realize was that the prior dispersion and movement of the population was a finely-tuned and long-practiced response to a very stingy semi-arid environment. Similarly, the complex forms of poly-cropping they practiced were generally quite productive and ecologically sound, despite having been judged, partly on aesthetic grounds, to be "backward" by agricultural planners. The mono-cropping mandated in its place typically failed. As the failures of the ujamaa became more manifest and the fiscal capacity of the regime to subsidize them weakened, communal production was abandoned and many of the villages broke up altogether. Where the new villages persisted it was due more to the improvisational skills and kinship networks of those resettled than to the logic of the planners' design.
Like the Soviet state, the Tanzanian state had replaced an independent, migratory, and illegible rural population with a regimented, fixed peasantry. In the process it damaged, if not destroyed, a preexisting human capital of working knowledge and social connective tissue. By making an abstraction of the peasant farmer and insisting on a vastly simplified, mono-cropping regimen, its own scheme proved a recipe for failure.
There u go!!!!.