Rent Day in the Wilderness by Edwin Landseer

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Rent Day in the Wilderness by Edwin
Landseer Depicts a public official collecting
rents from Scottish farmers.
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What Africa should look like? African
landscapes devoid of signs of human life.
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Arusha National Park, Tanzania
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Tanzania

• Originally colonized by Germany in 1891
• Germans lost possession to Britain following WWI
• British exercised independent rule in the
  colony ruled through LOCAL community leaders
• Gained independence in 1961 (islands of Zanzibar
  and Pemba followed mainland in 1963)
• First president, Julius Nyerere, established a
  radical socialist state funded in part by
  Chinese government
• 1967, Arusha Declaration
• Official political policy calling for
  egalitarianism, socialism, and self-reliance
• promised a decentralized government and a program
  of rural development called ujamaa (pulling
  together) that involved the creation of
  cooperative farm villages
• Factories and plantations were nationalized
  major investments in primary schools and health
  care
• Arusha policy largely a failure Nyerere resigned
  in 1985 2 presidents since

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Four Main Political Ecology Theses (Robbins 2004
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