ABSTRACT
Spectacular though the fact of urbanization is in Africa, it is now being realized that a far more important revolution is sweeping through the rural areas. 1 As was noticed in the last chapter, East African towns exist very largely to provide services to a countryside engaged almost wholly in agriculture. In a country like Tanzania, for example, 96 per cent of the population is engaged in agriculture. The realization has come that the economic development of East African countries means, in fact, rural development, and there has accordingly been a marked shift in italic towards this in the various development plans adopted during the past decade. The social changes wrought in the countryside alfect a larger number of people in the long run, and, as has been seen, many even among the urban population are migrants from rural areas, still very much attached to their homeland, to which many ultimately return.
