Tanzania's Ujamaa policy
Witness History
English - June 02, 2016 07:57 - 8 minutes - 4.05 MB - ★★★★★ - 853 ratingsHistory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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 larger villagers and worked collectively. It was part of a new experimental form of socialism, known as Ujamaa.
Photo: Tanzanian women cultivating the soil (AFP/Getty Images)