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Contributions from
the Column
Books and Media
Worlds Apart: Local and Global Villages
Periphery and globalised capitalism
Ethnicity and ethnic conflicts in Afghanistan
Partnership for International Development
World Bank’s water policy
04/2005 |
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With seven league boots into the modern era
Thomas W. Scheidtweiler, Ingo Scholz (Eds.):
Worlds Apart: Local and Global Villages.
From Villagisation to Globalisation in One Generation.
Nairobi, Konrad Adenauer Foundation/ Catholic Academic Exchange Service (KAAD) 2004, 114 pages, Euro 7.00, ISSN 1681-5890
In the 1960s, almost 90 per cent of Tanzania’s population lived on farms scattered throughout the countryside. Ten years later, following a massive urbanisation process the majority of the population lived in “development settlements”. People also learned that they were now citizens of an independent nation. Parallel to this ongoing process of nation building, East Africa’s elites have for some years followed a course of regional integration, in an effort to respond to the challenges of globalisation. This has led to the formation of societies whose members live partially in the global village, but remain closely involved in the lives of their extended families in the rural areas at the same time. (orb)
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