Tag Archives: Julius Nyerere

The Mugabe state: a shack built on viscount scraps

March 7, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

Edmund Msiska, zimeye. WHAT brouhaha was kicked up by that British conservative (or is it New Labour?) MP Kate Hoey’s proposal for the commemoration of the shooting of the viscount during the Rhodesian war! But brouhaha aside, the whole episode … read more »

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Leadership Puppetry, Despotism, Corruption & Hypocrisy: Poisonous For Africa

January 18, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By Tapiwa Kapurura, zimeye.org Pan-Africanist ideologies demand the elimination of the past colonial order, revamping of the dignity of the African person and the control of the resources on the land for the benefit of the native African. Such creeds … read more »

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Tanzania: Nyerere – Remarkable Crusader for African Liberation

October 22, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By Harid Mkali,Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam) Since its inception the African Union (AU) has shown a penchant for failing to define and protect Africans’ vital interests, especially land, which in effect is independence itself. It has also fallen … read more »

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Ethiopia: A Country in Search of Peace and Leadership

August 27, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

by Sadiq A. Abdirahman Ethiopia is irked by a lack of exemplary leadership that can unite the country and establish peace, tolerance, and harmony among its diverse population. Over the past two decades, the country was ruled by a totalitarian … read more »

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Uganda: Museveni is right, NRM needs him or his clone

August 12, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Pius Muteekani Katunzi President Museveni is being misunderstood when he says that he has not seen anyone in the NRM who could steer the country in the right direction after him. And he has been consistent on that point. His … read more »

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Biography of Julius Kambarage Nyerere

January 7, 2011 by benim

Julius Kambarage Nyerere was one of Africa’s leading independence heroes (and a leading light behind the creation of the Organization of African Unity), the architect of ujamaa (an African socialist philosophy which revolutionized Tanzania’s agricultural system), the prime minister of … read more »

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Facts about Tanzania

November 6, 2010 by benim

Tanzania has been spared the internal strife that has blighted many African states. Though it remains one of the poorest countries in the world, with many of its people living below the World Bank poverty line, it has had some … read more »

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