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Hunger, Healing, and Citizenship in Central Tanzania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

Kristin D. Phillips
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Abstract:

This article draws on newspaper commentary, Nyaturu hunger lore, and ethnographic research to describe how central Tanzanian villagers accessed food aid from the state during the East African food crisis of 2006. Through leveraging their political support and their participation in national development agendas, rural inhabitants claimed their rights. Yet it was through these exchanges that the state converted food aid into political power. The article argues that the highly ritualized gift of food aid naturalizes a contemporary political and economic order in which, counterintuitively, it is rural farmers who go hungry.

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African Studies Review , Volume 52 , Issue 1 , April 2009 , pp. 23 - 45
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Copyright © African Studies Association 2009

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