TANZANIA’S TRANSFORMATION FROM SOCIALISM TO CAPITALISM HAS LEFT ITS BUSINESS ETHICS FLOUNDERING
March 1st, 2011
BY JOHN K AGUNDA
IF there was one African country where a business forum on ethics was most appropriate, it might well be Tanzania, given its immediate post-independence history of socialism and self-reliance.
Those purist 1960s and 1970s days of former President Julius Nyerere and his 'ujamaa' leftism are now history, of course, with Tanzania, very much part of the gloablised liberal capitalist mainstream. But the ethics of decency and honesty that were part of ujamaa have increasing importance in the international economy today, and these were explored at an ...
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