The United Republic of Tanzania

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This paper examines how Tanzania today, remains a desperately poor country with a wide range of social and economic issues that represent profound constraints to its development. It proposes a study to examine how the economic, social and political paths the nation's leadership selects today will have enormously important implications for future generations of Tanzanians and their neighbors. It further seeks to identify what alternatives may provide the best approach for achieving millennium developmental goals for Tanzania today.

Outline:
Introduction
Statement of the Problem
Purpose of the Study
Methodology of the Study
Scope of the Study
Rationale of Study
Preliminary Review of the Literature
Conclusions

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"Tanzania represents a land of contrasts in terms of its geography, peoples and history that have shaped its current system of government in important ways. According to Calagus and his colleagues, "Like many countries that lived through the colonial experience, Tanzania inherited a 'legal stew' of European laws superimposed upon or existing concurrently with indigenous systems of customary and religious law" (p. 472). Beyond the burden of a "legal stew" is the manner in which it is adjudicated and what implications this holds for local citizens in different parts of Tanzania. By and large, it would seem that many Tanzanians are dissatisfied with their local and national leadership but remain uncertain about how to effect substantive changes. In his recent case study of Tanzania, Kelsall observed that "local people were dissatisfied with the way in which they were governed yet seemed unable or unwilling to do anything about it" (p. 9). Based on his analysis, this author offered several potential reasons for this disempowered dissatisfaction including the following. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Calaguas, M. J., Drost, C. M. & Fluet, E. R. (2007). Legal pluralism and women's rights: A study in postcolonial Tanzania. Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, 16(2), 471.
• Conte, C. A. (2006). Lowe Bjornsen, history under siege: Intensive agriculture in the Mbulu highlands, Tanzania, 19th century to the present. Africa, 76(4), 604.
• Kelsall, T. (2004). Contentious politics, local governance and the self: A Tanzanian case study. Uppsala: Nordic African Institute.
• Koponen, J. (2004). Farmers and markets in Tanzania: How policy reforms affect rural livelihoods in Africa. Africa, 74(2), 306.
• Tanzania. (2008). U.S. government: CIA world factbook. [Online]. Available: https://www. cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tz.html.

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