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African Underclass: Urbanization, Crime and Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam, 1919-61, author Andrew Burton provides insight into how the migration of rural inhabitants toward a major urban center, i.e.,
Dar es Salaam, and the policies African colonial governments converged relative to law and order issues. Specifically, Burton describes how the policies imposed by the British during the colonial era
between 1916 and 1961 resulted in the development of a social underclass in Dar es Salaam the capital of Tanganyika. Burtons principal thesis is to demonstrate how the purge campaigns
carried out against "unemployed, underemployed and informally employed" individuals living in Dar es Salaam during the early decades of independence have their ideological origin in the policies of British colonial
rule.i As this suggests, Burtons focus in on presenting a detailed and adept investigation that reports on the urban experience of the most marginalized citizens of Dar es Salaam.
The text is organized in a chronological fashion, which facilitates the reader understanding changes in policy and their effect, as they took place over time. This approach provides insight into
the minds and motivation of colonial officials. Burton shows that the primary concern of colonial officials was to reduce the inherent threat they associated with African migrants, as they saw
them not only as a direct threat to colonial rule, but also as likely recruits for Dar es Salaams criminal underworld. Therefore, officials sought to redirect Africans back to rural
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