ABSTRACT
Some countries have suffered continuous instability since independence. Regional and ethnic sentiments and border conflicts have been going on since independence in some regions and there are no less than a dozen crisis points involving about twenty countries. At the dawn of independence and the euphoric 1960s, the agenda for development was centered on the fundamental entitlements for which Africans struggled long and hard: access to means of production, basic human needs and safeguards to freedom of being. Tanzania, with its relatively well-conceived framework of disengagement and structural readjustment and more committed leadership should have achieved better results if it used less drastic tools for spatial adjustments in its rural transformation. Development frameworks for Sub-Saharann African must be formulated in the context of structural readjustment of the neocolonial economy and its fundamental moorings. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
