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- Title
Learning by Heart: Training for Self-Reliance on the TAZARA Railway, 1968-1976.
- Authors
MONSON, Jamie
- Abstract
During construction of the TAZARA railway between 1968 and 1975, most African workers learned skills on the job. A smaller number were selected to participate in specialised training, initially in makeshift classrooms and later in more structured institutes. Like today's China-Africa infrastructure projects, TAZARA embodied an intersection of political and economic motivations that belies the artificial binary of socialism/capitalism, or ideology/practicality, that is often projected on the history of this Cold War era. By understanding the ways in which often contradictory development priorities came together--including how they shaped, and were shaped by, the workers themselves--we gain a much deeper understanding of the significance and long-term impact of infrastructure development in China-Africa engagements across time and space.
- Subjects
LEARNING; TAZARA Railway (Company); SELF-reliance; AFRICANS; WORKING class
- Publication
Made in China Journal, 2021, Vol 6, Issue 2, p95
- ISSN
2652-6352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22459/mic.06.02.2021.12