Lecture on “Tanzania’s Development Experience From Ujamaa na Kujitegemea to IMF Inspired and Driven Policies”
27 February, 2014 @ 03:00 EET
The NGO Support Centre, in cooperation with the Law Clinic – University of Nicosia, cordially invite you to an open lecture on African states’ development experience and particularly the case of Tanzania.
“Tanzania’s Development Experience From Ujamaa na Kujitegemea to IMF Inspired and DrivenPolicies”
by Dr David Nyaluke, Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction, Dublin City University
Thursday, 27 February 2014, 16:30 – 18:00
University of Nicosia, 2nd Floor Conference Room
The lecture will be held in English.
The lecture is taking place within the framework of the 3-year, EuropeAid-funded project “UNIDEV – Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice”, that is currently being implemented by the NGO Support Centre. The project aims to increase awareness and understanding about poverty and the MDG agenda and to stimulate debate and action in support of fairer relations between the Global North and the Global South.
Abstract
Ujamaa na Kujitegemea means communalism and self-reliance. Tanzania leaders called the African socialism of Tanzania Ujamaa. Kujitegemea means self-reliance and in Swahili it means independence and self-help in order to meet once needs or solve problems. It was to emphasize aspects of the national independence.
This lecture series aims to discuss African states’ development experience through analysis and discussion of Tanzania’s development experience. Tanzania is an interesting case particularly because of its efforts to implement its own development path, after it gained its independence, under the ideology of Ujamaa na Kujitegemea. This self-reliance phase was followed by struggles with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) when the Tanzanian economy faced a crisis in the 1980s and hence the state had to adopt IMF economic policies to secure international financial support. Through the case of Tanzania, the lectures explore the challenges of nation-state building, economic and social development, and also democratization.
For more information, please contact Fotini Paleologou, NGO Support Centre, at [email protected], telephone 22875099 or Panayiota Mavromoustakou, Law Clinic, University of Nicosia, at [email protected], telephone 22841718.
