African Underclass: Urbanisation, Crime and Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam.(Book review)

Historian, The, June, 2007 by Segal, Edwin S.

African Underclass: Urbanisation, Crime & Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam. By Andrew Burton. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 301. $26.95.)

The Dar es Salaam of the reviewer's experience, a scant decade after the merger of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, was very different from the more mature city of the mid-1990s, when the author was doing his research. Then it was a city in the midst of the euphoria of a newly independent state, as well as the wrath of the United States for trying to follow a noncapitalist path to development. All the data of the mid-1970s showed Dar es Salaam to be growing at the rate of 10 percent a year, while the country was growing at between 3 and 4 percent. Other cities and towns in Tanzania were growing at slower rates...

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