





“The Kwanza Principle of Ujamaa refers to economic solidarity and cooperation. Originally,the word Ujamaa in Swahili simply meant “familyhood”. It was Julius K. Nyerere, the founder president of Tanzania (1961-1985 years in power), who gave the concept the sense of economic family-hood at the national level in Tanzania – a kind of African version of socialism. What Kwanzaa has done is to make Nyerere’s concept of Ujamaa remain economic but not necessarily socialist. Ujamaa can be solidarity in free enterprise. ~ Linguistic Dilemmas of Afrocentricity | The Diaspora Experience [Personal Finance, Education, Employment, Enterprise]