6 - Operation Vijiji and its Aftermath: Land Nationalisation, Villagisation and Disputes in Mbulu District, North-Western Tanzania, 1961–2006
Corresponding Author(s) : Juma Marmo Paresso
Afrika Zamani,
No. 26 (2018): Afrika Zamani: An Annual Journal of African History
Abstract
The Tanzania rural transformation policy, which was done through the nationalisation of the major means of production, Operation Vijiji and legal reforms, was one of the greatest socio-economic experiments in Africa. Expected to bring development to the majority of rural Tanzanians, nationalisation and villagisation have generated considerable land disputes in Tanzania over the past four decades. Scholarship on the Tanzanian land question has focused mainly on the lack of people’s involvement in decision making and ecological change as major causal factors of land disputes. The link between nationalisation, Operation Vijiji, legal reforms and land conflicts has not received much attention. This article argues that the high incidence of land disputes in Mbulu District in northern Tanzania could be attributed to the poor and hurried implementation of land nationalisation and Operation Vijiji.
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Coldham, S. 1995, ‘Land Tenure Reform in Tanzania: Legal Problems and Perspectives,’ Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol.33, No. 2,1995
Elias, R., 2012, ‘Land Conflicts in Moshi-Rural from 1930-2000,’ Dar es Salaam, University of Dar es Salaam, MA Dissertation.
Hyden, G. 1980, Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania: Underdevelopment and Uncaptured Peasantry, London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd.
Juma Marmo, 2014, “The Historical Roots of Land Conflicts in Mbulu District; 1945- 2010, MA Dissertation, University of Dar es Salaam
Kaijage, F. and Tibaijuka, A., 1996, Poverty and Social Exclusion in Tanzania, Geneva: International Institute for Labour Studies.
Kauzeni, A.S. et al., 1993, ‘Environmental Planning Issues’, IIED No. 3, IRA Research Paper No. 35, December.
Lawi, Y.Q., 2000, ‘Local Knowledge and Political Ecology of Natural Resource Uses in Iraqw in Tanzania, 1900–1985’, PhD dissertation, Boston University.
Maina, C.P., 1974, in G. Ruhumbika, ed., Toward Ujamaa, Twenty Years of TANU Leadership, A Contribution of University of Dar es Salaam to the 20th Anniversary of TANU, Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau.
McHenry J, D.E, 1979, Tanzania’s Ujamaa Villages, the Implementation of Rural Development Strategy, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Moyo, S. 2003, ‘The Land Question in Africa’ Research Perspectives and Questions, Draft Paper Presented at CODESRIA Conference on Land Reform, the Agrarian Question and Nationalism in Gaborone, Botswana.
Mpangala, G. P., 2000, Major Issues in Tanzanian Economy, State Policies and the Question of Transformation of Peasant Agriculture Through a Hundred Years, 1891-1990, Institute of Kiswahili Research, Dar es Salaam.
Mtwale, B.A., 2000, ‘Conflicts between Pastoralist and Farmers over Land Use: A Case Study of Kilosa District’, MA dissertation, University of Dar es Salaam.
Raikes, P., 1970, ‘Wheat Production and Development of Capitalism in North Iraqw’ in L. Cliffe, (ed) Rural Cooperation in Tanzania”, Tanzania Publishing House, Dar es Salaam.
Rwegasira,A., 2012, Land as a Human Rights, a History of Land Law and Practice in Tanzania,Mkuki na Nyota Publishers Ltd, Dar es Salaam, 2012
Shivji, I., 1994, ‘A legal quagmire: Tanzanian’s Regulation of Land Tenure (Established of Villages) Act, 1992’, in Contended Land in Southern and Eastern Africa: An Oxfam Working Paper, pp. 241–2, London: IIED.
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Veit, P., 2011, ‘Focus of Land in Africa, Placing Land Right at the Heart of Development, History of Land Conflicts in Kenya,’ Paper Presented in the World Resources Institutes.
Yanda, P.Z. et al., 2003, Natural Resources Use Patterns and Poverty Alleviation Strategies and in the Highland and Lowland of Karatu and Monduli Districts: A Study on Linkages and Environmental Implications, Research Reports No. 33, Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na
Nyota Publishers.