The government will be more effective in service delivery with concentration of people in given locations as opposed to when they are all over.This might be frowned at as advocating villagenisation, characterised by what Julius Nyerere, the then-President of Tanzania, called
Ujamaa Village Model.
People of these
Ujamaa villages lived and worked in the farms with incentives from the government.
Chavez's planning minister, Jorge Giordani, trained as a development economist at Sussex University, whose Institute of Development Economics was the autor intelectual, as they say in Spanish, of the
Ujamaa villages in Tanzania.
Aid money slated for
ujamaa villages vanished and a general resentment against the system set in.
Unlike Stalin, Nyerere was an undeniably well-meaning leader; he even hoped, initially, that his people would move into his so-called
ujamaa villages of their own flee will.
Scott traces the dire effects of high modernist ideology in realms as diverse as Soviet collectivization, Tanzanian
ujamaa villages, scientific forestry, industrialized high-yield agriculture, political revolution, and Le Corbusier's city planning.
How this interdependent relationship between planning and management is an important indicator of the success or failure of a given development scheme is investigated in this paper by looking at the case of
Ujamaa villages, a rural development scheme that took place in Tanzania between the late 1960s and early 1980s.