Tanzania: An African Experiment

Yeager, Rodger

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Routledge

This book provides an overview of Tanzania, one of Africa's economically most distressed, socially most innovative, and politically most controversial countries. Focusing on the last three decades, it glimpses into the rich Tanzanian past and reflects influences from the world's major cultures.

Tanzania

Kenya is one of Africa's most important and controversial nations. It has simultaneously been heralded for its political stability and economic success and criticized as a wellspring of elitism and class exploitation. Kenya remains a close ally of the West and a symbol of capitalism in Africa, and it occupies a position of strategic importance to t

Kenya: The Quest For Prosperity, Second Edition

Miller, Norman

The United Republic of Tanzania is a rare phenomenon in Africa, the result of a merger between the former British colony of Tanganyika and the island republic of Zanzibar. While there has been and still are tensions, this has held together, perhaps because the country has been ruled by a dominant party ever since independence. It enjoyed a special aura under its first president, Julius Nyerere, who spoke glowingly of an African socialism, which did not quite prosper as hoped, and a democracy, which is admittedly better than elsewhere but not quite what it might be. But the party is still there and Tanzania is doing as well as most and better than some.Still, while Tanzania is not as popular as before, it remains an important state and is worth knowing better. Given the shortage of literature on the country, it is fortunate that one can fall back on this, now second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Tanzania. It includes information, in the dictionary section, on life before the colonial powers arrived, what Germany and Britain did during their tenure, and what has happened since independence in 1961. This is provided in xxx concise entries. The chronology traces the history, pre-colonial, colonial, and independent, going year by year. And the introduction provides an overview. Certainly not to be missed is the amazingly large bibliography.

Historical Dictionary of Tanzania

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OFCANSKY, THOMAS P.

Africa

Scarecrow Press

Tanzania: An African Experiment (Profiles/Nations of Contemporary Africa)

Westview Press

Kenya: The Quest For Prosperity, Second Edition (Westview Profiles/Nations of Contemporary Africa)

Kenya is one of Africa's most important and controversial nations. It has simultaneously been heralded for its political stability and economic success and criticized as a wellspring of elitism and class exploitation. Kenya remains a close ally of the West and a symbol of capitalism in Africa, and it occupies a position of strategic importance to the Middle East and the Indian Ocean. Yet all of these distinctions are now coming under question in the fourth decade of independence.Kenya's exquisite natural beauty and renowned wildlife refuges hide a more mundane reality. The country is vast, rural, poor, and without oil or other mineral wealth. It is dependent on smallholder agriculture and export earnings from international tourism, tea, and coffee. Although the population is only 28 million, less than 20 percent of Kenya's land area is readily available for dense human settlement. Population growth has slowed, but demographic pressures still pose very serious socioeconomic, ecological, and environmental challenges.In this second edition of a critically acclaimed profile, Miller and Yeager address these and other social issues while tracing political and economic developments from early precolonial times to the contemporary period and the recent fourth-term reelection of President Daniel arap Moi. The book captures the aggressive, self-confident spirit that characterizes Kenya and provides unique insights into how this nation of contemporary Africa is faring in its continuing quest for prosperity.

0813382025 Kenya: the Quest for Prosperity, Second Edition

A Choice magazine outstanding academic book for 1982, Dr. Yeager's study  seeks to illuminate whether Tanzania is most accurately seen as a model  of successful modernization or a case study in development failure.

0813382025 Kenya: the Quest for Prosperity, Second Edition

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Tanzania: An African Experiment

Tanzania

Kenya: The Quest For Prosperity, Second Edition

Historical Dictionary of Tanzania

Tanzania: An African Experiment (Profiles/Nations of Contemporary Africa)

Kenya: The Quest For Prosperity, Second Edition (Westview Profiles/Nations of Contemporary Africa)

Tanzania: An African Experiment

Tanzania: An African Experiment

Tanzania: An African Experiment