I'm writing from New York. I joined the University College Dar es Salaam in 1966. In short, after one semester, most of Tanzanian students [and some from institutions of higher learning] organized a strike against Parliament Bill that required compulsory national building. We were expelled and stayed home for a period of six months. We were reinstated. I took History, Sociology and Education [Option] and graduated in 1970. During those years, is when we were taught by many expatriate professors amid the African universities attempted to go shed off Eurocentric perspective in favour of Afrocentric. I met historian professors John Illife and Terrence Ranger, the economist Knut Svensen, and political science David Kimble and *John Saul* and others. Student Groups consisted of University of Dar es Salaam Student Union, World Universities Student Union, and the pro-socialism militant University Students African Revolutionary Front [USARF] of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and TANU Youth League. Those of us who were pro- socialism thought that many of expatriate professors were "frustrated socialists*, who could not practice socialism in their countries of origin. They descended on the University College Dar es Salaam because the ideology offered a condusive teaching and learning environment. We were wrong. Increasingly, we started putting some questions on how they were framing the academic teaching in their courses. And one of them, who started as one of the best * darling professors, was *John Saul". There was another group that lived at the campus but we did not know what they were doing. Surely, one was with his wife doing her doctoral research. But the rest we thought they were a nest of foreign agents. One bright afternoon, some militant commandoes of USARF and TANU-Youth Wingers surrounded their houses to carry out citizen arrest and the University Security Police came to whisk them away for interrogations. As Tanzania embarked on building socialism along the policy of self-reliance, there started at the campus a rift between those who were pro-socialism, on the one side, and those who were either outright anti-socialism and wanted to put a break to building socialism or paid lip services to Tanzania new direction. We knew John Saul and his group were not going to last long.
Patriarchy defines not only the African experience but it is what has created the world system of white supremacy and privilege. within the context of a presumed democracy. But what is democracy in the context of the early decolonial experience and what is it now - "a political competition that increases the division." A word with no meaning except that it has good intent. It is well and fine to critique the socialists of the era, but surely they were examples of their historical moment. All developing countries that underwent colonialism, especially black people in these economies, are still trying to work towards an optimum model of development without the encumbrance of foreign "white" dominance through their various institutions. I take away from this discussion the following: 1. The primary focus on the need to create a public policy presumes a collectivity capable of making choices in the collective interest. they need to be created and preserved..2. In order for anything ressembling rationale desire to move forward he has to create a sense of common interest to allow policy to be set,"(3). You had to create a polity that was the basis for development. it was the human consequences of development that were absolutely critical. (4) Unless the rate of interest is rationally determine no society can progress.(5) Development has to come from production and your own resources and thus he would probably have been at variance with Clive Thomas and others in the English speaking Caribbean who adopted the failed industrialisation by invitation model. (6)priorities and approaches were serious, valuable, exciting and importantly he was able to bring about some consensus. Politicians are not always the best economists and this was a problem of the early decolonial efforts but were African leaders allowed to climb the ladder - No, the ladders were kicked from beneath them through assassinations and murder and the imposition of corrupt leaders because of the hatred for the word "socialism" and not what as Bernie Sanders points out its variants and what it could achieve. They were not allowed to rise because of deliberate continuation of obstructive internal and external structures.
I'm writing from New York.
I joined the University College Dar es Salaam in 1966. In short, after one semester, most of Tanzanian students [and some from institutions of higher learning] organized a strike against Parliament Bill that required compulsory national building. We were expelled and stayed home for a period of six months.
We were reinstated. I took History, Sociology and Education [Option] and graduated in 1970.
During those years, is when we were taught by many expatriate professors amid the African universities attempted to go shed off Eurocentric perspective in favour of Afrocentric.
I met historian professors John Illife and Terrence Ranger, the economist Knut Svensen, and political science David Kimble and *John Saul* and others.
Student Groups consisted of University of Dar es Salaam Student Union, World Universities Student Union, and the pro-socialism militant University Students African Revolutionary Front [USARF] of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and TANU Youth League.
Those of us who were pro- socialism thought that many of expatriate professors were "frustrated socialists*, who could not practice socialism in their countries of origin. They descended on the University College Dar es Salaam because the ideology offered a condusive teaching and learning environment.
We were wrong.
Increasingly, we started putting some questions on how they were framing the academic teaching in their courses. And one of them, who started as one of the best * darling professors, was *John Saul".
There was another group that lived at the campus but we did not know what they were doing. Surely, one was with his wife doing her doctoral research. But the rest we thought they were a nest of foreign agents. One bright afternoon, some militant commandoes of USARF and TANU-Youth Wingers surrounded their houses to carry out citizen arrest and the University Security Police came to whisk them away for interrogations.
As Tanzania embarked on building socialism along the policy of self-reliance, there started at the campus a rift between those who were pro-socialism, on the one side, and those who were either outright anti-socialism and wanted to put a break to building socialism or paid lip services to Tanzania new direction.
We knew John Saul and his group were not going to last long.
Patriarchy defines not only the African experience but it is what has created the world system of white supremacy and privilege. within the context of a presumed democracy. But what is democracy in the context of the early decolonial experience and what is it now - "a political competition that increases the division." A word with no meaning except that it has good intent. It is well and fine to critique the socialists of the era, but surely they were examples of their historical moment. All developing countries that underwent colonialism, especially black people in these economies, are still trying to work towards an optimum model of development without the encumbrance of foreign "white" dominance through their various institutions. I take away from this discussion the following: 1. The primary focus on the need to create a public policy presumes a collectivity capable of making choices in the collective interest. they need to be created and preserved..2. In order for anything ressembling rationale desire to move forward he has to create a sense of common interest to allow policy to be set,"(3). You had to create a polity that was the basis for development. it was the human consequences of development that were absolutely critical. (4) Unless the rate of interest is rationally determine no society can progress.(5) Development has to come from production and your own resources and thus he would probably have been at variance with Clive Thomas and others in the English speaking Caribbean who adopted the failed industrialisation by invitation model. (6)priorities and approaches were serious, valuable, exciting and importantly he was able to bring about some consensus. Politicians are not always the best economists and this was a problem of the early decolonial efforts but were African leaders allowed to climb the ladder - No, the ladders were kicked from beneath them through assassinations and murder and the imposition of corrupt leaders because of the hatred for the word "socialism" and not what as Bernie Sanders points out its variants and what it could achieve. They were not allowed to rise because of deliberate continuation of obstructive internal and external structures.