#HappyKwanzaa ! #Kwanzaa Day 4 - #Ujamaa with the #Semi-Conscious #BBoy ( #FlyGuysPodcast )

Summary: #HappyKwanzaa Day 4 - #Ujamaa with the #Semi-Conscious #BBoy ( #FlyGuysPodcast )<br>The Swahili word ujamaa means 'extended family', 'brotherhood' or 'socialism'; as a political concept it asserts that a person becomes a person through the people or community. Nyerere used Ujamaa as the basis for a national development project.<br><br>"To build our own businesses, control the economics of our own community and share in all its work and wealth."<br><br>Ujamaa also stresses self-reliance in the building strengthening and controlling of the economics of our own community. President Nyerere has said self-reliance in Ujamaa means "first and foremost... that for our development we have to depend upon ourselves and our own resources" (43). The assumption here is that we must seize and maintain the initiative in all that is ours, and that we must harness our resources and put them to the best possible use in the service of the community. This, he says does not mean denying all assistance from or work with others but of controlling policy and shouldering the essential responsibility for our own future.