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The 1988 Rural Literacy Survey was the third literacy survey to be carried out by the Central Bureau of Statistics. The first one was undertaken 1976 while the second followed in 1980/81. The objectives of these surveys were to establish literacy levels in the country, to provide data for monitoring the impact and evaluation of efforts to eradicate illiteracy and to provide data at the district level for planning purposes. Results on literacy levels in English, Kiswahili and mother tongue are provided in the report. Data on adult education and reading habits of the rural population are also presented

Theatre for Development (TfD) is a process whereby the community uses theatre, especially African traditional theatre forms, to address their development issues. In Tanzania, TfD came as a result of many factors; poor communication approaches used by the state in addressing development in the late 1970s, the economic crisis of the 1970s, the implementation of IMF and World Bank pressure to adopt Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) among others. Liberal policies imposed mostly from Euro-America proposed non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to replace the state in addressing development, as they were perceived to be more democratic and less authoritative. Most of the supported activities of NGOs became those linked to development or that are in the position to bring about development in the fields of health, sanitation, education, gender, and democracy. Therefore, even theatre that was supported by donors was linked to or addressed 'development'. In most cases, funding institutions have their own objectives, missions, and goals to fulfil. This paper tries to question the role of TfD in present Tanzania. It argues that, since most of the TfD projects have been funded by foreign donors and communities have no economic control of their own development concerns, it is clear that TfD is playing a double deal, community empowerment on the one hand and disempowerment on the other.