A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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‘Chief village in a nation of villages’: history, race and authority in Tanzania's Dodoma plan
This article explores how notions of African authenticity informed urban planning in post-colonial Africa. It examines an attempt by Tanzania's ruling party to build a new national capital in the sparsely populated region of Dodoma. Paradoxically, Dodoma's planners sought to build a modern African city based on the social principles of the traditional African village. This vision of African village authenticity legitimized Tanzania's ruling party by linking its authority to a purely African, rather than colonial, past. At the same time, it allowed politicians to criminalize urban poverty by attributing it to racial betrayal rather than broader structural failures.
‘Chief village in a nation of villages’: history, race and authority in Tanzania's Dodoma plan
This article explores how notions of African authenticity informed urban planning in post-colonial Africa. It examines an attempt by Tanzania's ruling party to build a new national capital in the sparsely populated region of Dodoma. Paradoxically, Dodoma's planners sought to build a modern African city based on the social principles of the traditional African village. This vision of African village authenticity legitimized Tanzania's ruling party by linking its authority to a purely African, rather than colonial, past. At the same time, it allowed politicians to criminalize urban poverty by attributing it to racial betrayal rather than broader structural failures.
‘Chief village in a nation of villages’: history, race and authority in Tanzania's Dodoma plan
EMILY CALLACI (author)
Urban history ; 43
2016
Article (Journal)
English
Geschichte , Zeitschrift , Stadt , Gesellschaft , Kultur
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