Does National Development Policy Encourage Participatory Communication?
The Case of Tanzania – Benedict Mongula, Institute of Development Studies, University of Dar es Salaam Abstract: “Virtually all political leaders in Africa, at the time of independence, announced a policy of encouraging grassroots participation in the national decisions. The Arusha Declaration of Tanzania was one of the clearest and strongest statements guaranteeing popular participation. The present article takes Tanzania as a case study to analyse why, in spite of all the talk of grassroots participation, it is so difficult to promote significant participatory communications in Africa. This article examines the cases of systematic repression by government of movements attempting to institutionalise participation. Also examined is why there are so few serious, long-term and sustained attempts in Tanzania to introduce systems of grassroots, participatory communication. The electronic publication of the African Communication Review is sponsored by the UNESCO Chair in Communication, curr
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