Visions of Tanzanian Socialism
Tanzania's attempt to build socialism under Julius Nyerere failed. But it remains an animating force for egalitarian demands today.
Can the past offer a guide to a better future?
The 1977 constitution of the East African coastal nation of Tanzania might suggest so. Its purpose, it proclaims,
is to facilitate the building of . . . a nation of equal and free individuals enjoying freedom, justice, fraternity, and concord, through the pursuit of the policy of Socialism and Self Reliance which emphasizes the application of socialist principles.
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