THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE IN UJAMAA

Abstract

The origin of Ujamaa was traced back to the foundation of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), a mass party founded by Julius Nyerere in 1922 with its assertion that Tanzanians should be free to govern themselves and determine their own destiny as a people. It achieved this by mobilizing Tanzanians to demand independence from British Government, and it became independent on 9th of December 1961 with Nyerere as its first prime minister. On 9 of December1962, Tanzania became a Republic, with Nyerere as its first president. Nyerere's Government began moving step by step towards ujamaa immediately after independence as the party declared the Ujamaa as the official policy of the ruling party in 1967. The policy described ujamaa in terms of attitude of family-hood or brother-hood and proceeded to express specific socialist practices.