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What does ujamaa mean?

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Noun
  1. An ideology of cooperation and collective advancement that formed the basis of socioeconomic policies in Tanzania in the 1960s.
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The ujamaa experiment was based on the communal ownership of land.
Ujamaa, groups of individuals, often female, represented in their daily activities.
Complex and technically difficult, the power of ujamaa towers lies in the social bond they represent and the communal values they assert.
Arnold seems favourably inclined towards Julius Nyerere's ujamaa system of village socialism in Tanzania, but concedes it failed before it was abandoned.
Self-reliance and ujamaa programs raised the literacy rate to over 80 percent.
He was a firm believer in rural Africans and their traditions and ujamaa, a system of collectivisation that according to Nyerere was present before European imperialism.

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