ABSTRACT
The experts of the World Bank held that to discipline and modernize a backward and economically inefficient rural world, people must be removed from the widely scattered houses where they were used to living and concentrated in villages. The Tanzanian government agreed with these recommendations, and in the first five-year plan after independence it adopted a program to induce the peasants to leave their homes and resettle in villages. The Nyangombe area is marginal in Tanzanian agriculture, and stock farming has a considerable importance there. In the Nyangombe area herding, agriculture, and fishing are practiced. Villagization has had different impacts on these three activities. The peasants are interested in farming techniques. The conclusions that the author had reached cannot be applied to the whole country, but from many other analyses it is clear that the peasants' resistance has generally aimed to defend production relations that existed before villagization.
