Popular histories of independence and Ujamaa in Tanzania

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2008

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University of Western Cape

Abstract

It is now forty years after the start of African Socialism, or Ujamaa, in Tanzania. This study examines to what extent Tanzanians still tell their national history in ways which feature the important themes of social change that were introduced by President Julius Nyerere and his political party after independence: increasing equality, popular participation, egalitarian values and self-reliant economic development

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Masters of Art

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Independence, Ujamaa, Socialism, Africanization, Oral history

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