United Republic of Tanzania

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United Republic of Tanzania
Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania
Flag of United Republic of Tanzania
Flag
Coat of arms of United Republic of Tanzania
Coat of arms
Location of United Republic of Tanzania
CapitalDodoma
Largest cityDar es Salaam
Official languagesSwahili
English
Dominant mode of productionCapitalism
Area
• Total
947,303 km²
Population
• 2023 estimate
65,642,682


Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa.[1]

History

British occupation

Workers in the shipping, post, diamond, and rail industries led a series of strikes in 1958 to win independence from Britain.[1]

Independence

In the early 1960s, Tanzania did not largely intervene with small farmers besides improving irrigation.

In 1967, President Julius Nyerere announced the creation of a socialist state in the Arusha Declaration. He adopted the concept of socialist villages (ujamaa) and nationalized key industries while developing agriculture and industry. He merged all unions into the National Union of Tanganyika Workers. He encouraged all peasants to move to these villages within by 1970, relying on soldiers to force them to move in some cases. This program resettled 20% of the country's population.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Vijay Prashad (2008). The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World: 'Arusha' (pp. 191–7). [PDF] The New Press. ISBN 9781595583420 [LG]