How did Swahili become an East African lingua franca? It was not by accident. I n March 1960 Julius Nyerere – then leader of ...

Using Julius Nyerere’s essay „Ujamaa - the Basis for African Socialism “(1962) as a starting point, this article seeks to explore Ujamaa’s multifaceted meanings and realities, addressing the Arusha ...

Nyerere's political and ethical agenda for Tanzania was African Socialism, or Ujamaa in Kiswahili. The essential components of Ujamaa were freedom, unity, equality and respect for human dignity ...

The anniversary of Julius Nyerere's death, 14 October, ... by promoting the use of Swahili as a common language and through his vision of "African Socialism" or ujamaa (familyhood).

In the late 1960s Tanzania's first post-independence president, the charismatic Julius Nyerere, believed that endemic poverty in rural areas could only be addressed if peasant farmers relocated to ...

President Samia Suluhu appears to be poorly schooled in the history of the United Republic of Tanzania under the founding president, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, whose Ujamaa philosophy entailed ...

The late Julius Nyerere was indisputably and indubitably a man of the people. That is why his social and economic development policies favoured community. These policies, when wrapped up in a neat ...

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Tanzania's founding father Julius Nyerere has been honoured with a statue outside the African Union headquarters in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa. Nyerere led what is now Tanzania from ...