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
Conclusion
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
Problems are not solved, but lived: like it or not, this is an apt comment on poverty and development in the Southeast. Having lived the region’s problems for about ninety years, Bibi Amina passed away in 2014, about five years after the completion of the all-weather road from Dar es Salaam to Lindi, and on to Masasi. During her last years, she would have observed a slight livening-up of trade in the town, owed not only to this road, but also to the intensification of contacts between Masasi and Mozambique.2 Before the Dar-Lindi road was completed, some people moved from Lindi to Masasi, claiming that the latter had become the livelier town. There was a supermarket in Masasi before one opened in Lindi.3 But for Bibi Amina, I am told, things continued much as they had been. She was too old to join the latest scramble for opportunity, and as the daughter and grandchildren who supported her were doing reasonably well, she did not have to. Perhaps she took some courage from the changes around her, but they are not likely to have stopped her musing about how her people were complicit in their poverty.
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- The Politics of PovertyPolicy-Making and Development in Rural Tanzania, pp. 280 - 310Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019