This book describes the history and challenges facing Tanzania through the voices and memories of Tanzanians and through their visions and ideas about the challenges Tanzania faces today. It is a story of setbacks and disappointments, but also of pride. Among those interviewed are leading politicians, activists and researchers, but the book also includes ordinary everyday Tanzanians farmers, workers, grandfathers and grandmothers, active and retired civil servants.The statements are used thematically in chapters focusing on the various challenges that have faced Tanzania: from insufficient focus on agriculture to the menace of corruption; from socialism to capitalism and from the role of the family to the importance of religion. There is a strong focus on the limitation of independence. Tanzania is independent, but there is no true independence in a globalized world.