Kegagalan Sosialisme Africa (African Socialism) Tanzania dan Pengaruhnya terhadap Eksploitasi Sumber Daya Alam Tambang oleh Inggris (2015-2020)

This paper examines the failure of Tanzania’s African Socialism which leads the country’s entrapment on exploitation of mining resources by the British government in 2015-2020. African Socialism is Tanzanian development ideology in conducting political and economic practices. However, during the era of President John Magufuli, cases of mining exploitation by the British companies have increased. Magufuli, who implemented African Socialism through a nationalist economic system failed to remove Tanzania from the category of least developed country. African Socialism should be emphasizing Tanzania’s assertiveness in avoiding exploitation. This anomaly directs to a research question on why African Socialism failed to prevent Tanzania’s mining resources from being exploited by the British in 2015-2020. The question is examined explanatively with state failure theory. This paper finds that the Magufuli government was intentionally incorrect in implementing African Socialism which exemplifies state-building failure. The failure eased British government and corporate concessions to Tanzania’s mining resources.