Talk:Ujamaa

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It has been wrongly reported that Tanzania got independence from Britain in 1964. The correct information is that Tanzania got independence on the 9th day of December 1961. May you kindly correct the article accordingly?

Adolf Makauki, Lecturer at Mzumbe University, Tanzania. Email: makauki@yahoo.com


 * Thanks for pointing this out. You are right and the article has been corrected accordingly.--Mschiffler (talk) 12:47, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

East African ubuntu?
The concept of ujamaa (the social, rather than economic aspect of it) seems very very similar to ubuntu in South Africa. Perhaps a mention could be made of their similarity? Both, in fact, use the premise that a person is only a person through other people. Joziboy 16:30, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

General Neutrality
A large focus has been placed on the negative outcome of the Ujamaa concept. Though I will not dispute that these may be statistically accurate, I would suggest a greater emphasis be made on the theoretical perspective of Ujamaa. Also the article currently reads as if the author has a political agenda, perhaps this should be balanced with alternative references. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.96.170.228 (talk) 01:51, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Lack of Neutrality
The article is biased and full of author's opinions on ujamaa and attacking Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, you went as far as calling him a dictator, while i'm sure you are well informed about Tanzania yet you never mention how well reverred Mwalimu Nyerere has been by both Tanzanians and the international community, not to sound hypocritical may be he was a dictator but what happened to neutrality. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.232.214.205 (talk) 16:05, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

POV
Per the two sections above, I have marked the article with POV. I was going to translate the article into Norwegian, but when I got to the second paragraph I realized something was very wrong with the article. All of the negative focus was inserted by one user, MuzikJunky, and points to only one source. Maybe the article should be rolled back to the version before MuzikJunky's edits. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 18:20, 9 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Done. 190.48.126.31 (talk) 10:40, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Villagization ??
"The villagization of production, which essentially collectivized all forms of local productive capacity." that is unsubstianted and generally not correct. Villagization was a huge project of mostly forced population transfer (after an initial voluntary phase) which resulted in lots of human rights violations and economic suffering. (cf Report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry Into Land Matters / Tume Ya Rais ya Uchunguzi katika Masuala ya Ardhi ) The result was not any kind of kolchos system or other collectivized production but rather the start of concentrated population centers and end of practises like shifting cultivation and scattered settlements, combined with insecure tenure of land (and all that means for development perspectives...) Kipala (talk) 23:54, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Merge?
This is covered here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Nyerere#Ujamaa_and_economic_transformation (Although there it reads much more negatively than this article) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.61.95.74 (talk) 14:40, 12 April 2018 (UTC)