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‖ ujamaa|udʒaˈmaː| [Swahili, = consanguinity, brotherhood, f. jamaa family, a. Arab. jamā῾a group (of people), community.] The name given by President Nyerere of Tanzania to a kind of socialism he introduced in that country in the 1960s, in which village co-operatives were established based on equality of opportunity and self-help; so ujamaa village.
1962J. K. Nyerere Ujamaa: Basis of African Socialism in Ujamaa: Ess. Socialism (1968) 12 ‘Ujamaa’, then, or ‘Familyhood’, describes our socialism. 1962Economist 8 Sept. 892/2 Mr Nyerere's thesis that Ujamaa (familyhood) is the basis of African socialism. 1969Reporter (Nairobi) 13 June 21/1 Ujamaa villages will be encouraged, to spread more wealth across the rural areas. 1970Drum (E. Afr. ed.) Feb. 19/2 Tanzania is now well under way with its second Five-Year Development Plan, a {pstlg}400 million investment programme tailor-made for the strengthening of ujamaa throughout the land. 1971Standard (Dar es Salaam) 7 Apr. 1/8 A sum of 15,422/20 is to be spent by the government on drilling ten bore⁓holes in various villages of Hanang district, including two ujamaa villages. 1979New African Mar. 57/2 Out of Tanzania's total 16 m. population, more than 13 m. are living in about 8,000 ujamaa villages. 1983N.Y. Times 15 Aug. c14/6 Most of the cast participate in the theater arts and black studies programs of Ujamaa. |