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Yale Yale
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Mibaka Uchumi
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Amka Kumekucha
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State of the union?
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A decaying union with weak legitimacy
Muafaka number 7 signed in Zanzibar |
No political change
Zanzibar is a conduit for extraction of wealth |
Federal Republic of Tanzania. New Federal constitution forms the basis for unity between the regions
Zanzibar is an active part of the federation in Mkoa Mashariki. |
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Nature of government?
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Centralized and powerless
Weak and selectrive enforcement of the law
Vulnerable to financial pressure from outside the country |
Captured
Coopted
Corrupted
Compromised |
Smart, facilitative and adaptive with a professional civil service.
Predictable legal system
Effective local government |
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Quality of politics?
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Avoids accountability
A culture of blame
Selfish and confrontational |
Based on wealth and personality
Money talks, money walks |
Competitive, open, accountable and slow
Local priorities dominate |
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Nature of the economy?
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Economic activity is dominated by informal, small-scale subsistence farming and trading
Formal economy controlled by local elites and foreigners |
All economic activity dominated by Mibaka and their agents
Tanzania’s mineral resources are exported and cash crop production takes place on large, private plantations. |
Economic activity controlled through joint ventures between local communities and domestic or foreign partners
Resource-based production and trading with profits re-invested in the local economy. |
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Relationship with the world?
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Tanzania is for sale and at the full mercy of global forces
Donors provide diminishing support to the state |
Tanzania is sold and open for exploitation
Donors focus their support primarily on their investors
Social justice is left to the charities |
Tanzania is not for sale
Donors identify and support local priorities and initiatives - by invitation. |
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Nature of the relationship between our ethnic, racial, religious, social communities?
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Simmering confrontation and conflict
Relationships marked by stress, anxiety and envy. |
Mibaka manipulate the divisions between communities for personal gain
Simmering popular discontent |
Competitive
Negotiated compromises
Unpredictable and vibrant relationships |
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How do people survive?
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On their wits (ujanja) |
Through handouts, favours and patronage from the Mibaka |
Through their ethnic, racial, class, religious connections (the utu net). |
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Who benefits (winners)?
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The urban elite with marketable skills, and access to capital and contacts. |
Selected politicians and big businessmen (the Mibaka)
Those with marketable skills and access to the Mibaka network |
People with connections and skills broker successful relationships between different communities
Communities that learn and adapt quickly to opportunity. |
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Who suffers (losers)?
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The urban and rural poor, with poor education and skills and no patronage or capital. |
Those with little schooling, untrained, unskilled and with no access to patronage or capital. |
Communities with low levels of trust, unable or unwilling to learn, negotiate, innovate |
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Our natural heritage?
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The environment is ignored, ravaged and plundered indiscriminately. |
The environment is exploited and depleted in an organized, systematic way
Economically marginal areas used as dumping grounds. |
The environment is protected where it is recognized as a source of livelihoods
Some areas are degraded. |
