Ujamaa
Sign in to savethumb|upright|Julius Nyerere Ujamaa ( in Swahili) was a socialist ideology that formed the basis of Julius Nyerere's social and economic development policies in Tanzania after it gained independence from Britain in 1961.
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- Ideology and practice
- Political infrastructure in independent Tanzania
- Arusha Declaration
- Codification and implementation of Ujamaa ideology
- Ideology of self-reliance and the Five Year Plan
- Ujamaa villages and Tanzanian villagization
- Ujamaa village structure
- Vijiji project
- Ujamaa and gender
- Ecological effects
- Decline and end of the Ujamaa Project
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|upright|Julius Nyerere Ujamaa ( in Swahili) was a socialist ideology that formed the basis of Julius Nyerere's social and economic development policies in Tanzania after it gained independence from Britain in 1961.
More broadly, ujamaa may mean "cooperative economics", in the sense of "local people cooperating with each other to provide for the essentials of living", or "to build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together". Activist Maulana Karenga adopted the idea of ujamaa as one of seven principles (Nguzo Saba) in 1965, which formed the focus of the new holiday Kwanzaa a year later.