Ntimbanjayo Millinga

Rediscovering Tanzania’s Ujamaa – Tribute to the Great Ntimbanjayo Millinga and the Ruvuma Development Association

Ntimbanjayo Millinga
Date: Sunday, 8 February 2009 - 1:30pm - 5:30pm

Location: Bolivar Hall Venezuelan Embassy

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

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