Linkage of government and local people in fostering collective production in central Hai.

The study examined the linkage of Government and local people in fostering collective production in Central Hai in Kilimanjaro. The study revealed that many of the collective projects were initiated after the emergency of “pseudo” socialistic ideas (in the post Arusha Declaration from 1967) which gave rise to the mobilization of the local peoples to go to Mwese for settlement and produce collectively. The main reasons of the failure of these projects are given in this paper as underlined by the perverse linkage of the government (bureaucrats with the local people, in which case the Mwese settlers were alienated by the authoritative centralized bureaucracy). The Mwese settlers therefore gave up the project just to opt for their own conventional way of living whereby individualism is extolled and one’s success in life is measured by one’s ability to make so much resources for himself. The other link exerted by the government and incidentally coming after decentralization is the initiations of the localized collective productive activities such as ‘Ujamaa villages’ small scale industries and re-organizing the traditional villages politically so that the villages can become registered as primary cooperate societies. In analyzing the latter it is found that the government again has failed to act as a transforming agent.