Tanzania

The struggle against poverty, war & occupation - Rediscovering Tanzania’s Ujamaa

Tribute to the Great Ntimbanjayo Millinga and the Ruvuma Development Association

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In the 1960s, a great anti-imperialist movement for independence swept the world.  President Julius Nyerere urged Tanzanians to reject capitalist exploitation, and build a society based on African communalism.  Ntimbanjayo Millinga with a few others and hardly any funding put these views into practice and built an extraordinary rural society based on equity between women and men, young and old.  By 1969, 17 ujamaa villages had formed the Ruvuma Development Association (RDA).  But the governing party was so hostile that, against Nyerere&rsquo

In the run up in 1960 to what was then Tanganyika’s Independence, Julius K. Nyerere, President of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) and later first President of the country, called for its people to work hard and work together on farming in the interest of the country’s development. Responding to this call, Ntimbanjayo Millinga, who has died of cancer aged 69, led a small group of TANU party Youth League members to the Litowa valley in the Songea District of what was to become the Ruvuma Region in the south of Tanzania.

MBONEKO MUNYAGA
Sunday News; Sunday, June 17, 2007 @00:04
Tanzania Standard Newspapers

A LONDON group of publishers yesterday re-launched the Arusha Declaration as one of the key documents for the emancipation of man in the 20th century.

Mwalimu’s son, Madaraka is in London for the event and has been invited by the publisher, Mrs Selma James, who, with her husband, CLR James, was active in the movement for independence and federation in the Caribbean, which drew many lessons from the struggle in Africa.

with Madaraka Nyerere son of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Tanzania's 1st President

Meeting, Exhibition of children's art
& Benefit with live music

Saturday 16 June, 11 am - midnight
Swahili: Tanzania ya Nyerere: Mafunzo ya maendeleo, umoja na amani

Trinity United Reformed Church, Buck Street, London NW1
Camden Town Tube
All Welcome -- Wheelchair Accessible Hall -- Accessible toilets nearby