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Julius Kambarage Nyerere (Mwalimu)

Date of Birth: 13 April 1922
Place of Birth: Butiama, Mara Region
Died: 14 October 1999


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Tarnished halo

Local business people and some officials say that while Kenya is a nation of entrepreneurs Tanzanians lack business know-how and don't trust foreigners perhaps the impact of years of socialism and nationalisation under President Julius Nyerere (1964-85)...


Blood and money in the streets

There are also plans for China Sonangol to finance renovations at Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam...


The next great land sale

' Ownership of land has been a deeply politicised topic since the rule of Independence leader Mwalimu Julius Nyerere and the era of African socialism; agriculture still accounts for about 50% of gross domestic product with more than two-thirds of the population depending on it directly...


Islamic alliance

They were disbanded by founding President Julius Nyerere a Catholic socialist but keen secularist...


Cleaning the stables

Kizengo Kayanza Peter Pinda who served as Private Secretary to three Tanzanian presidents Julius Nyerere Ali Hassan Mwinyi and Benjamin Mkapa is President Jakaya Kikwete's surprising choice as Prime Minister after the resignation of Edward Lowassa who was accused of impropriety over a power contract...


Flying higher

Chen Yuan Governor of the CDB has confirmed the Bank would help finance the Air Tanzania deal adding that China Sonangol has agreed with Tanzania to develop Terminal III of Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam...


Zanzibar: the islands are quiet for now

The original eleven articles of union were hastily drawn up in April 1964 to end a bloody Zanzibar revolution by the presidents of the states which were then separate Julius Nyerere of Tanzania and Abeid Karume of Zanzibar...


Charles Janson

Wood who was a friend and (at first) an admirer of Julius Nyerere was prominent in the Capricorn Society a movement that impressed Janson with its aim of creating multiracial harmony and political partnership between black and white people...

He predicted for instance that Ghana's charismatic leader Kwame Nkrumah would become an erratic despot and that Julius Nyerere would bankrupt his country with his unwieldy ujamaa model...


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