Political Superannuation and the Trans-Class Man.

The National Executive Committee of the Tanganyika African National Union met at Arusha in January 1967 and later issued a Declaration of far-reaching policy consequences in Tanzania. This Arusha Declaration and the socialistic measures, which accompanied it, constituted a significant event in the ideological history of that country. But what concerns sociologists in this paper are "the Leadership Resolutions" which constituted Part Five of the Declaration. The theoretical ambition of this article is wider than a simple analysis of governmental policies in Kenya and Tanzania. Indeed, African experience is being used mainly as a source of empirical illustrations in support of broader theoretical concerns. What African countries generally raise are distinctive issues of social stratification in relation to problems of political succession and to political development at large. The sociologists must therefore firmly relate their concerns in this paper to some of the broader ideas, which have already emerged in the literature on development so far.