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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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Ujamaa, groups of individuals, often female, represented in their daily activities.
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.
To critics, his moral approach to politics masked an arrogance and a refusal to listen to those with shrewder views of what was best for his country. Tanzanians abandoned ujamaa as soon as they could.
Self-reliance and ujamaa programs raised the literacy rate to over 80 percent.
In practice, a mixture of ujamaa and top-down socialism was imposed.
Arnold seems favourably inclined towards Julius Nyerere's ujamaa system of village socialism in Tanzania, but concedes it failed before it was abandoned.

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