User:Benedicto H. Ntibikema

Tanzania and the present world.Italic text Tanzania is the country with long perharps impressive or bowering history. She has long duration of existence with world's impressively parks and reserves such as earlier lived man discovery made by Dr. Leakey and his wife Mary at Olduvai in Northern Tanzania.

Tanzania has endowed so much water bodies makes it the second in Africa to have large water body. She has Prenty animal reserves, natural forests, traditions, minerals and fertile soil.

With those impressive resources, Tanzania is the poorest country in the world according to Human Development Index(HDI) She is ranked at 156 position out of 174 countries. This position is not relating with the real situation the country should be.

The country has experienced two colonial powers those are German since 1890s to 1945 and Great Britain from 1945 to 1961 when she got her independence under the past Mwl. Julius K. Nyerere(would he rest in peace). The years of colonization, Tanzania has exploited accordingly by those imperialist powers.

After she has regained her independence(1961), Tanzania has been passing several economic restructuring strategies such as Structural Adjustment Programme(1981/2), Village Programme under Arusha declaration of 1967, Vision2025, and other more, still yet enabled the country to develop accordingly.

On 9th December 2011, Tanzania will be cerebrating 50 years of Independence with the happy that she has a great move toward competitive economic growth. This hope is due to countries success in building primary, secondary and training schools including the increased higher learning institutions since independence.

The fact is; Tanzania has not attained competitiveness growth of economic as It is experienced from the rural areas majority. Rural areas are vulnerable to social services, political and economical facilities. Good example has observed in Dodoma rural areas where people are believed to be the poorest in Tanzania.This is due to several field Research which have been conducted by students form higher learning Institutions.  Political Situation Tanzania as it has observed, still have conservatism nature in political conduct. The majority ruling party MPs, uses their larger number to decide on the programmes that proposed by the ruling party even if weak. The same number of MPs are used to vote for agreeing or rejection of proposals introduced by opposition parties even if they are beneficial. This is to weakens political parties(opposition parties to the ruling CCM)to have an influence to the people who have created the followers of ruling CCM.

Not only conservatism, there is Totalitarian hybrid in political structure. people are limited to freedom of expression and information access. The use of over power to dismantle political activities has pronounced in the country. Making fear to the people especially illiterates is the key way of finding followers of political parties. Secrecy in governance is the mjor problem of Tanzania politics.corruption and shame are Prent in governmental organizations. As it has researched, Tanzania is among the 15 countries including Russia,Venezuela, Cuba, China, and other in which Human Rights are prohibited.

Social services Tanzania social services are more diversified into urban areas than rural areas. This enables planners and researchers to identify and distinguish how bias the Tanzanian government is and how extent gap is between rural and urban in social development. Despite there are improvement in some sectors such as education, water and health, the services are less than the real demand of rural. For instance,the school require 20 teachers, you may find 3 teachers only and dispensary require 3 nurses and 1 doctor, you may find only 1 or 0 nurse in rural areas. this situation indicate 50 years of Tanzania independence has not managed to reduce the poverty rate in the country.

Economic Development. Economic opportunity in Tanzania basically is lunched in cities like Dar Es Salaam, Mwanza, Mbeya, and Arusha. Rural areas have created for areas of exploitation of resources for building cities. Minerals are more extracted in regions like Shinyanga,Mbeya,Tabora, Mara and other,but these producing areas are poor than it would have been. Outsiders are more benefiting from Tanzania policies over resources investment which favors the capitalists to invest for free rate of 10 years since project installation. Also Tanzania has earned high local currency inflation which has made meanders in price burst. Tanzania economy Depend much on; External aid, Agriculture, Tourism, minerals, industries, communication and transportation, household tax paying. The general economy of Tanzania is poor despite that is developing. The Tanzanians earn between 0.5 to 1.5 US Dollars a day and two meal a day.

By Considering the explanation above, Tanzanians and other interested in making recommendation on Tanzania and 50 years of Independence, can comments whether Tanzania has managed to pursue Economic Development Since ever to Present in which 50 years we are free from colonialism.

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