Ujamaa

Day4: Dec 29

Principle: Ujamaa - Cooperative Economics

Symbol: Nsibidi (2 interlocking half circles symbolizing family and togetherness)

Candle: Red

To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.

Ujamaa encourages the creation of communal wealth, shared works and improving the well being of our people.

Without the principle of, Ujamaa we continue to put ourselves at risk of perpetual unbalanced social constraints that lead to enslavement and exploitation of one another, familial oppression and deprivation.

Ujamaa isn't concerned with wealth and riches for show or bragging rights.

Ujamaa promotes reliance on ourselves and our own resources for the development and advancement of our people and culture.

Ujamaa does not reject the help or resources of those outside of our community, instead Ujamaa requires us to govern our own affairs by maintaining control, ownership and order when including and/or working with others.

Ujamaa stresses shared wealth and work as this also comes with shared concern, care and responsibility for our brothers and sisters.

Ujamaa creates avenues to end poverty and hunger, to provide resources that aid in bridging disparity gaps and leads to abundance - our birthright.

Tanzanian president Julius Kambarage Nyerere initiated Ujamaa in the 1960s and 70s to develop and implement social and economic policy, read more about this here