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Tanzania: 50 Years of Independence and Evaluation

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Seminar
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Wednesday 15 February 2012
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Location: Michael Sadler: LG15

In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of independence in Tanzania we are delighted to host this panel event:

50 Years of Independence and Evaluation

  • Dr Anna Mdee: 'Addicted to Aid?'
  • Prof. John Loxley: 'From Self-reliance to Neo-liberalism'
  • Emeritus Prof. Peter Lawrence: 'Agricultural strategy and (De)Industrialisation'
  • Nicodemus Shauri Eatlawe 'Democracy in Tanzania'
  • Hazel Gray 'The legacy of Socialism for Economic Transformation Under Liberalisation'
  • Emeritus Prof. Lionel Cliffe 'The Politics and Legacy of Ujamaa'

SPONSORED BY THE REVIEW OF AFRICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY

** The event to be followed by a free buffet **

Anna Mdee is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies and Deputy Director of John and Elnora Ferguson Centre for African Studies. Anna's primary research is around the understanding and contributing to community-led development in villages in Tanzania.  The focus of this work includes community management of water resources, pro-poor tourism and building capacity of local government and NGOs.  She is currently collaborating with a Tanzanian NGO on a project to promote the rights of groups of people living with HIV/AIDS.

John Loxley is Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. He specializes in international finance, international development and community economic development, in particular alternatives to orthodox economic theory and policy. He has also worked at Makerere University and the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and worked as economic advisor to the governments of Tanzania, Uganda, Madagascar, and Mozambique. John studied at Leeds as an undergraduate and also completed his PhD here.

Nicodemus Shauri Eatlawe is a final year PhD Candidate with the University of Bradford, researching governance of civil society in Tanzania with the aim of developing a state-civil society model of interactions in Tanzania. He holds a BA. (Ed) in English and History and an MA in Achievement Motivation both from the University of Dar es salaam and a Diploma in Advanced Pastoral Training focusing on Spiritual Leadership from AFMIN Institute. He has worked as a teacher/trainer and in various consultancy roles (including advocacy/lobbying and policy analysis), and as CEO, for Tanzanian NGOs.

Peter Lawrence is Emeritus Professor of Development Economics of the University of Keele. Peter was Lecturer in Economics at the University of Dar es Salaam between 1968 and 1972. He has researched principally in development economics issues, including the transition economies, and also in unemployment in local labour markets. Peter is especially interested in the effects of liberalization on developing economies and has carried out research on the effects of liberalisation on African primamry commodity export performance.

Since the seminar Hazel Gray has completed her PhD (2012) on Tanzania and Vietnam in the Department of Economics, SOAS, University of London and is now is an LSE Fellow in the Department of International Development, LSE. Her research interests concern the political economy of development. In particular, her research explores the political economy of the state, industrial policy and economic development in Africa and the comparative legacies of socialism in Tanzania and Vietnam. From 2000 until 2003 she worked as an Economist at the Minsitry of Finance in Tanzania.

Lionel Cliffe is Emeritus Professor of Politics of the University of Leeds. He has worked on political economy and politics of development in Africa for fifty years, with field work in Tanzania, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa, and Eritrea. He also lived and worked in Tanzania from 1962-1971 (Kivukoni College, and University of Dar es Salaam, Lecturer ad Director of Development Studies) He is co-author with John Saul of Socialism in Tanzania (2 vols). Currently Professor Cliffe is working on a project on comparative experience with land reform in post-settler colonies: Kenya, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.

Note re Lionel Cliffe's recent work:

Guest Editors: Lionel Cliffe, University of Leeds; Jocelyn Alexander, University of Oxford; Ben Cousins, PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, and Rudo Gaidzanwe, University of Zimbabwe

Some of these articles can be downloaded for FREE from the JPS website:

Special Issue: Outcomes of post-2000 Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjps20/current for a limited period!