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SUMMARY:Ujamaa socialism\, the Vietnam war\, and the end of the Prague Spr
 ing: Cold War interventions and Tanzania’s ‘1968’ - George Roberts\,
  (Warwick)
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DESCRIPTION:Whereas historians of the protest politics of 1968 have largel
 y focused on events in Europe and North America\, recent studies have expl
 ored them as a global phenomenon\, tied to decolonisation struggles in the
  Third World. In Tanzania\, youth and student protestors took to the stree
 ts of Dar es Salaam: first in opposition to the United States’ war in Vi
 etnam\, then in outrage at the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 
 contrast to the common narrative of 1968\, which sees disillusioned young 
 people challenging the authority of the state\, in Tanzania the language o
 f protest reinforced the ideological message of the regime\, which quietly
  encouraged the demonstrations. If the radical press envisioned Tanzania a
 s part of a global struggle against imperialism\, the underlying message\,
  which stressed the need for vigilance and unity in the face of neocolonia
 list threats. This connected Cold War interventions elsewhere to the natio
 nal revolution taking place at home\, under President Julius Nyerere’s p
 rogramme of ujamaa socialism\, as set out in his Arusha Declaration of 196
 7. Further\, giving such radicals opportunities to direct their pent-up en
 ergies outwards at the forces of imperialism\, rather than inwards at the 
 regime\, channelled criticism away from Nyerere and towards external targe
 ts. However\, an increasingly militant party youth movement also represent
 ed a challenge to the central leadership\, by misrepresenting Tanzanian fo
 reign policy to the world and by offering ambitious politicians opportunit
 ies to develop their own power bases within the establishment. Nyerere the
 refore had to perform a careful balancing act\, enlisting the vocal suppor
 t of the youth when desirable\, while ensuring that protest against superp
 ower interventions did not become protest against his own rule.\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room S2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambrid
 ge CB3 9DT
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