Mcfm40, kudos for sharing this well-researched piece! Actually, in this critique the author tries to show the ironically missing link between the original idea of (capital city) Dodoma as concieved by Nyerere (which allegedly was borrowed from Mao's communist China) and its implementation, which was largely influenced by ideas from the capitalist west. This argument would, to some extent, have held water if we had still been embroiled in typical cold-war ideological wrangling. Otherwise, does this line of reasoning really render the entire Dodoma project obsolete?