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The focus of this article is organizational behaviour in and around the private sector in Tanzania at a time of transition through liberalization and the promotion of private sector activity; how the private sector has re-emerged in the very recent past; how it operates as a group or, more accurately, as a set of groups, and the relationships between its component parts and with other development organizations (notably public actors: the state and aid donors). Within this framework our interest is in how organizational behaviour is mediated and trust is built through the brokering of relations between different organizations which intersect the public and private (and what this means for the public sphere). The article assesses the usefulness of a three-level framework for analysing organizational and institutional transformation, shows that some tentative but modest change is occurring, and that a range of incomplete but positive political processes are happening. We show that institutional development is the weak link in these processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on a course in development studies for the first and second year engineering and medical students, been taught at the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. For six years, a series of two year courses in Development Studies has been taught to all undergraduate students from all faculties in the University of Dar Es Salaam. The separate undergraduate courses for each of the six university faculties have the same general objectives, but the content of each is adapted to the needs and abilities of each group of students. The authors were responsible for mounting the Development Studies courses for medical and engineering students. A Development Studies course, in its entirety, involves 54 lectures and 27 seminars per year for two years, plus part of the student's practical experience of two months per year. The section Scientific and Technical Development in Pre-Colonial Africa used the small, but growing, literature to show the development and nature of African societies. It included discussion of advances in agriculture, such as terracing, crop rotation, manuring and instruments; and of advances in community production, such as iron making, textile and salt production.