Hayek Against Ujamaa: Knowledge, Identity, and Economic Planning in Postcolonial Tanzania.

The article examines Tanzania's Ujamaa experiment under Julius Nyerere, showing how the ambitious socialist policies of villagization and state-led economic planning collapsed due to the disregard of dispersed local knowledge, markets, and cultural practices. Topics include Ujamaa and African socialism, Hayek's knowledge problem and the fatal conceit, the failure of centralized economic planning, and the social and cultural costs of forced villagization.