Book contents
- The Politics of Poverty
- African Studies Series
- The Politics of Poverty
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Map
- Introduction
- 1 The End of Slavery, Famine, and Food Aid in Tunduru
- 2 Changing Configurations of Poverty in the Colonial Southeast and the Myth of Communalism
- 3 The Struggle to Trade
- 4 Independence and the Rhetoric of Feasibility
- 5 Villagisation and the Pursuit of Market Access
- 6 The Politics of Development in the Era of Liberalisation
- 7 Performing and Pursuing Development in Kineng’ene
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- African Studies Series
1 - The End of Slavery, Famine, and Food Aid in Tunduru
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 June 2019
- The Politics of Poverty
- African Studies Series
- The Politics of Poverty
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Map
- Introduction
- 1 The End of Slavery, Famine, and Food Aid in Tunduru
- 2 Changing Configurations of Poverty in the Colonial Southeast and the Myth of Communalism
- 3 The Struggle to Trade
- 4 Independence and the Rhetoric of Feasibility
- 5 Villagisation and the Pursuit of Market Access
- 6 The Politics of Development in the Era of Liberalisation
- 7 Performing and Pursuing Development in Kineng’ene
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- African Studies Series
Summary
In early 1930, officials in Lindi town, then the capital of Tanganyika’s Southern Province, became aware of a famine going on in the remote rural district of Tunduru, about 200 miles further west.1 Over the next few months, it generated a fair amount of correspondence between offices in Tunduru, Lindi, and Dar es Salaam, and led the Provincial Commissioner, Mr Hallier, to institute a campaign of food distribution. Different official observers came to fundamentally different conclusions as to the causes of the famine and the means to prevent its recurrence. The limited oral record available on Tunduru, meanwhile, focuses for this period on labour migrancy and the aftermath of slavery, rather than hunger.2 As the famine passed, official interest in this remote district dropped off again rapidly. Nevertheless, the limited record of the events available to us repays study for several reasons.
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- The Politics of PovertyPolicy-Making and Development in Rural Tanzania, pp. 43 - 73Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019