By Issa Shivji | August 2017 The rise and fall of the Arusha Declaration on Socialism and Self-Reliance (Ujamaa) in Tanzania surely remains to be one of the key hallmarks of this nation’s political, economic and social fabric and outlook in general. While critically evaluating the main premises of Ujamaa, this article rigorously interrogates its relevance and application to the current socio-political situation. ...
Aylin Basaran | August 2017
Sinema Ujamaa is a documentary that reveals the history of film in Tanzania. Through their research collaboration, the Tanzanian film scholar and lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam, Symphorian Belleghe and Aylin Basaran, an Austria-based scholar and film maker together with veterans of the early Tanzanian film industry enter into a complex journey.
by Nyerere Resource Centre (NRC)
Fast forward 50 years, in February 2017, the Nyerere Resource Center (NRC), a partner organization of RLS in East Africa, organized a high level event to mark the 50 years since the Arusha declaration. Read more ... ... On February 7th 1967, the then ruling party in Tanzania Mainland (TANU) made a declaration on what would be the national ideology for decades to follow, branded UJAMAA na Kujitegemea. The implementation of the declaration would go on to see mass nationalization of all major private businesses. However, even though the declaration itself is more remembered for its economic and commercial elements (that limited the two ... Former President Benjamin William Mkapa has officially launched the highly anticipated Mwalimu Nyerere Resource Centre at the Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH) in Dar es Salaam.
The driver behind the centre is the international well-know lawyer and researcher Prof. Issa Shivji. Since several years Prof. Shivji is member of a team writing a new political biography of the Julius Kambarage Nyerere. 
Videos: Celebrating the Arusha Declaration
Dialogue: Searching for the way: 50 Years after the Arusha Declaration
The heritage of Mwalimu: Launch of the Nyerere Resource Centre