Social Class In Tanzania In Transition

Social class has been an issue ever since the early times of human’s life on earth. So people started implementing techniques to get rid of this issue, this is where socialism was first introduced. Through socialism social politicians attempt to overcome social deficiencies. The social class is discussed a lot in first article that written by Dr. J.E. Peterson who had a lot of experience in the Arabian Peninsula because he is a historian and political analyst specializing in the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf, while the second article is chapter 2 from Kjell Havnevik’s book Tanzania in Transition (2010). In his article Oman's Diverse Society: Northern Oman Peterson discussed the huge number of diverse ethnic groups in Oman, and their extraction,
The author discusses the factors that caused this independence to occur and the factors that caused the post-independence policies to fail; he also discusses “economic, social, ethnic and regional structures and imbalances that had developed in Tanganyika before independence must provide a backdrop to understanding the processes that influenced and were influenced by the nationalist movement” (Havnevik, 2010, p 20). Throughout his discussion Havnevik briefly shows the sovereignty struggle that TANU (Tanganyika African National Union) went through in which it rewarded them greatly with their country transitioning from a colony into an independent country. He started his article by explaining the real motives of Nyerere’s nationalist movement, as Havnevik stated the movement focused mainly on the country’s independence, unity and equality among its people (2010,p. 20). Those three ideologies were the basis of the campaign, and it what made Nyerere’s independence policies succeed. However the post-independence policies has failed because the government laws that was stated seemed by the nation as being unjust. The people who seemed to be beleaguered started oppressing people, this caused Tanzania to become in a state in which most people were feeling uneasy so mutiny broke, Nyerere tried to stop the mutiny but the mutineers themselves were the military forces, so he had no other choice but to resort to an external force to stop the rebels, which is the United Kingdom. As Havneik stated “Sixty British marines were landed by helicopter at military barracks on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam and half an hour later the mutiny was over” (2010, p 26). After the mutiny was over Nyerere was worried that the ideals of TANU, which is to unite the country and eradicate corruption and