ABSTRACT
What happens to popular movements after they are absorbed into mainstream political processes? What happens to their imagined utopias? This chapter attempts to answer these questions in relation to the Ufungamano Initiative and especially how the merger affected its activities and the outcomes of the constitutional review process. It explains that, although the Ufungamano Initiative forced the state to acquiesce on the issue of popular participation, this victory spelt doom for both the movement itself and the radical state transformation project it had championed.
