In the early 1960s, three pilot agricultural and settlement schemes were set up along the shores of Lake Victoria in the north-western region of Tanzania with the involvement of Israeli development agency Agridev. One of these sites was Mbarika, where the experimental project ran for three years and had mixed results before being discontinued by the young Tanzanian government. This article explores the story of that scheme and its long-term legacies some 50 years on. Unpacking the representational and material ruinations that outlived the project's official timeline, we examine the memories and rumours that continue to haunt the site to this day and their entanglement with successive development experiences and shifting political ideologies. Through interviews, ethnographic observations and archival research, we shed light on the complex, deeply ambiguous legacies and ‘afterlives’ of a development intervention set between expectations of modernity and a sense of exclusion.

1960 年代初期，在以色列发展机构 Agridev 的参与下，在坦桑尼亚西北部地区的维多利亚湖沿岸建立了三个试点农业和定居计划。其中一个地点是姆巴里卡（Mbarika），实验项目在那里运行了三年，结果喜忧参半，后来被年轻的坦桑尼亚政府终止。本文探讨了该计划的故事及其大约 50 年后的长期遗产。解开在项目官方时间表之外存在的代表性和物质性破坏，我们研究了至今仍困扰着该地点的记忆和谣言，以及它们与连续发展经历和不断变化的政治意识形态的纠缠。通过访谈、民族志观察和档案研究，我们阐明了复杂的情况，