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Jackson, Jonathan M. ORCID: 0000-0003-1672-9456 (2021). 'Off to Sugar Valley': the Kilombero Settlement Scheme and 'Nyerere's People', 1959-69. J. East. Afr. Stud., 15 (3). S. 505 - 527. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 1753-1063

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Abstract

Despite colonial echoes, settlement schemes represent a major element in 'nation-building' endeavours in Tanzania's history. Their evolution through the 1960s was circuitous and haphazard. This article explores the origins of one of the earliest schemes linked to Julius Nyerere and TANU: the Kilombero Settlement Scheme (KSS). It traces its origins from 1959 and ragged progress over the subsequent decade before its eventual transmutation under Ujamaa. Nyerere personally promoted KSS and its basic premise in sending unemployed men from cities to uncleared countryside to grow sugar cane for sale to a local factory. The scheme's extended trajectory reveals its palimpsestic nature through a history layered by different approaches to the reorganisation of rural life in Tanzania. This was an embryonic testing ground, both in terms of the politics of resettlement and of funding development projects of this kind. For one of the surviving settlers, they were 'Nyerere's People' as ideologies met practical realities. KSS was flawed but resilient. For its failures more than its successes, it became an important model in Tanzania's programme of social development for understanding the challenges of rural transformation.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Jackson, Jonathan M. UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-1672-9456 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-564003
DOI:	10.1080/17531055.2021.1938812
Journal or Publication Title:	J. East. Afr. Stud.
Volume:	15
Number:	3
Page Range:	S. 505 - 527
Date:	2021
Publisher:	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Place of Publication:	ABINGDON
ISSN:	1753-1063
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language TANZANIA Multiple languages Area Studies; Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56400