Julius Nyerere, Ujamaa, and Political Morality in Contemporary Tanzania

Abstract

Abstract: Since the 2000s, Tanzania has witnessed the return in the public sphere of a reconfigured version of Ujamaa as a set of moral principles embodied in the figure of the first president of Tanzania, Julius Kambarage Nyerere. The persisting traces of Nyerere and Ujamaa are not so evident in actual political practices or economic policies, but rather in collective debates about politics and morality—in short, in contemporary imaginaries of the nation. Contributing to a long-standing discussion of the moral stature of Tanzania’s “father of the nation,” the article explores how and why a shared historical memory of Nyerere is being built or contested to define, mediate, and construct Tanzanian conceptions of morality, belonging, and citizenship in the polis today.

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Marie-Aude Fouéré (2014). Julius Nyerere, Ujamaa, and Political Morality in Contemporary Tanzania. African Studies Review. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2014.3

@article{marieaude2014julius,
  title  = {Julius Nyerere, Ujamaa, and Political Morality in Contemporary Tanzania},
  author = {Fouéré, Marie-Aude},
  year   = {2014},
  journal = {African Studies Review},
  doi    = {10.1017/asr.2014.3}
}

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