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ujamaa

n. An ideology of cooperation and collective advancement that formed the basis of socioeconomic policy in Tanzania in the 1960s.

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Ujamaa

Ujamaa ('family hood' in Swahili) was the concept 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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Another method was the granting of extensive land rights to Ujamaa members only, turning those who lived outside into squatters.

The most effective combination of compulsion and aid proved to be the distribution of famine relief in 1971 to Ujamaa villages only, forcing outsiders to work on the communal farms of villages where they were not members or to start their own.