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    The politics of Rural Transformation in Tanzania: the case of the Introduction Of Cattle-Keeping in Umakonde 1966-1987
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 1988) Machenje, Betram
    This study is an attempt to elucidate the way cattle –keeping is being established in Umakonde within the context of analyzing the politics of rural transformation in Tanzania. The focus is on the processes involved and the struggles which that economic undertaking is stimulating in the socio-cultural order of a rural population. The political economy of the Makonde rural society provide terms of reference in analyzing examples of general transformational needs of rural societies in Tanzania.Rural transformation strategies which Tanzania has experienced have been examined with the objective of analyzing their relevance to and impact on the socio- economic life of the peasantry and the totality of the Tanzania underdeveloped situation. Cattle rearing programme and its prospects in Umakonde is examined with particular reference to the socio ecological environment of Makonde peasants and then pinned down to the role of small scale crop production in the Tanzania economy. This economic base is then tied to the Tanzanian superstructure within its neo-colonial matrix.In this study, it is held that the general transformation of the rural sector and particularly that of the Makonde rural life to which the question of eradicating malnutrition is just one of its several aspects, has been pegged around myths and bouts of ignorance to the extent of making it appear on some thing needing replacements from without . as such, the study on exposition of the totality of the Makonde situation it hope of widening comprehension of the organizational nationality, environmental logic, consistence and conformity of what is, in the opinion of the modernizing agents, a backward culture of not keeping cattle. There is urgency to comprehend and appreciate not only the weakness of the policy programme but also the totality of the struggle to would a national ethic and a self centred national economy. Modernization thinking or developmentalism and its decadent objectives in socio-economic transformation of our country compounds the urgency for deeper realities as it is very incapable of taking us far. The weight rural transformational challenges before us calls for integrated and well coordinated policy programme with strategies extending beyond more changes or bureaucratic aspiration . indeed the study calls for consideration of the conditions of social struggles for self determination self defense and self emancipation of our people to come the actual force for the transformation of their own situation be they crops producers or any other segment of our nation.In this dissertation the study of the politics of rural transformation in Tanzania is organized in five chapter. The first chapter deals with the theoretical context of the problem. Its main focus is on discussing the theoretical premises of the policy decision to introduce cattle-keeping Umakonde within the general context of rural transformation.The second chapter deals with the Tanzanian livestock sector with a view of analyzing its role and contribution to rural transformation. This aspect is traced historically so as to provide systematic understanding of trends and changes which have been taking place. The central aspect of this study is part of those changes. Chapter three deals with the Mokonde socio- economic situation. The main objective has been to examine the policy objects and their struggles in their own environment. This is an important aspect in determining ecological relevance of the policy and its subsequent impact. To understand those aspects, the study had to have a closer look at cattle-raising processes and the politics those processes have been stimulating in Umakonde. This has been dealt with in chapter four. The general summary of observations. Conclusion and recommendations have been presented in chapter five.