Abstract
The discovery of large recoverable reserves of natural gas in southeastern Tanzania has bolstered Tanzania's determination to transform itself from being one of the poorest aid-dependent countries in the world into an industrializing Middle-Income Country (MIC) by 2025. Drawing on an ethnographic study conducted in the rural Mtwara region, this article examines the hype and hope surrounding the dominant national political discourse on how the gas project will empower the nation and oppositional discourses from the margins that tell a different story. Narratives of people affected by the gas project reveal differing perspectives, including experiences of domination, exclusion, indignation, humiliation, injustice, resistance, powerlessness, and indifference. The article illustrates how the process and scale of the gas project, and the rapidity with which it was implemented, represents what scholars have variously called accumulation by dispossession and accumulation by displacement. Ultimately, those at the...
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