Tanzania-Zambia Railway: Escape Route from Neocolonial Control?

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Abstract

Case histories describes the joint attempt of Tanzania and Zambia to escape from the supranational network that controlled southern Africa, by expanding links across the Indian Ocean by building a railroad that would give Central Africa a way to export minerals outside the control of the southern African system. Author warned "the extraction and processing of ores is, in all circumstances, an interdependent part of a larger scale world industrial system" (p. 102).

Original languageAmerican English
JournalDefault journal
StatePublished - Jan 1 1970

Keywords

  • Tanzania-Zambia railway
  • supranational network
  • neocolonial control

Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences

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