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  • noun An ideology of cooperation and collective advancement that formed the basis of socioeconomic policies in Tanzania in the 1960s.

Etymologies

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From a Swahili word for extended family.

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Examples

  • The two main elements, in Swahili, were 'ujamaa', which Julius Nyerere defined as

    Contents 1995

  • Tanzania’s first president implemented the idea of ujamaa, or “familyhood,” which instructs that development should be carried out in villages just as in the home, with everyone contributing to the projects in the society like one big jolly African extended family.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Gail 2008

  • Tanzania’s first president implemented the idea of ujamaa, or “familyhood,” which instructs that development should be carried out in villages just as in the home, with everyone contributing to the projects in the society like one big jolly African extended family.

    An Alaskan in Tanzania......................And on to Honduras Gail 2008

  • Third is Julius Nyerere's "ujamaa" concept of development which is informed by the cooperative economics of sharing not accumulating, of self-reliance not dependency.

    Up Station Mountain Club 2008

  • Third is Julius Nyerere's "ujamaa" concept of development which is informed by the cooperative economics of sharing not accumulating, of self-reliance not dependency.

    Up Station Mountain Club 2008

  • Third is Julius Nyerere's "ujamaa" concept of development which is informed by the cooperative economics of sharing not accumulating, of self-reliance not dependency.

    Up Station Mountain Club 2008

  • Third is Julius Nyerere's "ujamaa" concept of development which is informed by the cooperative economics of sharing not accumulating, of self-reliance not dependency.

    Up Station Mountain Club 2008

  • "The value of ubuntu and ujamaa inform all of us of our humanity," she said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • The reporter-photographer team that went to Africa worked in an ujamaa village in Tanzania and traveled with guerrillas in the liberated zones of Guinea-Bissau (Portuguese Guinea).

    Lns Hentoff, Nat 1972

  • Austin Peay student Devin Hart explained the seven principles as: umoja - unity; kujichagulia - self-determination; ujima - collective work and responsibility; ujamaa - cooperative economics; nia - purpose; kuumba - creativity; and imani - faith.

    theleafchronicle.com - Local News 2009

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