Gendering Villagization: Women and Kinship Networks in Colonial and Socialist Lindi, Tanzania

The article discloses a formative perspective on villagization using rural women's narratives of resettlement in colonial and socialist Lindi, Tanzania in the 1970s. It looks at women's understandings of villagization, and their engagement method with the resettlement process through recollections of post-World War II. It examines the effect of the vulnerabilities and uncertainties of post-World War II gendered political economy on women's experience in the post-villagization period.