Eckert, Andreas - In: Africa Spectrum 34 (1999) 2, pp. 213-235
This article attempts to historicise the current debates about decentralisation and "good local government" on the basis of a concrete example. It focuses on local government reforms in two areas (Sukumaland, Kilimanjaro) in late colonial Tanzania. In the 1940s and 1950s, the then British...
