Ujamaa – The hidden story of Tanzania’s socialist villages

Author: Ralph Ibbott • Introduction Selma James
Publisher: Crossroads Books
Published: 2014

The great 20th century movements for independence get little credit for what they achieved. Ujamaa tells the astonishing story of the socialism villagers built in rural Tanzania. They were inspired by, and in turn inspired, the extraordinary President Julius Nyerere and his policy of African socialism. This is Ralph Ibbott’s account of ujamaa as he lived it.