TANGANYIKA MONO-PARTY REGIME: A STUDY IN THE PROBLEMS,CONDITIONS AND PROCESSES OF THE EMERGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ONE-PARTY STATE ON THE MAINLAND OF TANZANIA

Abstract

This is a sociological study of the conditions of the colonial situation which underlie the development and processes which culminated in the creation of a one-party state in Tanganyika.The structure of the colonial situation, the manner in which the colonial situation was conflict generating, the factors which encouraged and stimulated the colonial conflict, the conditions under which the conflict became overt and manifest, and how this led to the formation of political parties, the factors which promoted the growth of and the development of a dominant territorial African political party, the Tanganyika African National Union, and the structure of the one-party and how the one-party state functions, are examined using historical and structural analysis. The structure of the colonial situation in Tanganyika is found to be a plural society, in which Europeans occupied superordinate positions, Africans occupied subordinate positions and Asians the inter-mediate positions.