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  Julius Nyerere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Julius Kambarage Nyerere (April 13, 1922 - October 14, 1999) was President of Tanzania, and previously Tanganyika, from the country's founding in 1964 until his retirement in 1985.
Nyerere was instrumental in the union between the islands of Zanzibar and the mainland Tanganyika to form Tanzania, after a coup in Zanzibar in 1964 toppled Jamshid bin Abdullah, who was the Sultan of Zanzibar.
Nyerere was one of African Leaders during the Pan-African movement that swept the continent in the 1960's.
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 Julius Nyerere   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Julius Kambarage Nyerere (July 19, 1922 - October 14, 1999) was President of Tanzania, and previously Tanganyika, from the country's founding until his retirement.
Nyerere was a co-founder of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) which merged with the Afro-Shirazi Party of Zanzibar to form the Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) or People's Revolutionary Movement.
Nyerere was also one of the founders of the Organization of African Unity in 1963.
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 Julius Kambarage Nyerere
Julius K. Nyerere became the President of Tanganyika (East Africa) in 1962 and was President of Tanzania (Tanganyika and Zanzibar) from 1964 to 1985.
Nyerere, a Socialist and Pan-Africanist, was a force for moderation and racial harmony.
Although Nyerere criticized the retention of income and literacy qualifications, as well as the reservation of a specific number seats in the legislative council for the European and Asian minorities, the new plan was seen as a definite triumph for him and his party.
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Nyerere was elected chairman of the Organisation of African Unity in 1984.
Nyerere had given an undertaking that he would relinquish the presidency of Tanzania when his last term expired in 1985, and it was in character that when the time came he did not seek to alter or postpone it.
Julius Nyerere belonged to a generation of African post-independence leaders, like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, who had an unshakeable belief in their mission to lead their countries to a better world through their chosen political ideologies, but who were unable to recognise their personal failings.
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 Tribute to Nyerere
Julius Kambarage Nyerere was born in March 1922 at Butiama, near the eastern shore of Lake Vitoria.
In 1967, under Nyerere's supervision, TANU introduced a 'Leadership Code' for all its leaders to report regularly to the President on their wealth and income, and for the next three decades, he argued that the state officials must be accountable to the people.
With respect to tolerance of differing opinions, Nyerere was perhaps at the forefront for the battle of democracy, and most of his writings, speeches and actions bear the imprint of dialogue in the promotion of meaningful political discourse for the benefit of all citizens of society.
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 Julius Kambarage Nyerere
Julius Nyerere has numerous accomplishments to his credit, one of the most admirable being the sense of nationalism, pride, and dignity he instilled in the people of Tanzania.
Julius Nyerere is also instrumental in the triumph of the freedom struggle in a number of African countries.
Nyerere will also be remembered for his graceful exit from power in 1985, his courageous admission that "Ujamaa" had failed, and his vital realisation that the management of affairs in the United Republic of Tanzania, had to be passed to a younger, energetic, and more vibrant generation.
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 Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere: Obituary
Nyerere was the champion of the liberation of southern Africa becoming the first chairman of the Frontline states.
Nyerere was born at Butiama, a village near Musoma on the shores of Lake Victoria, in April 1922.
Nyerere, understanding the Americans duplicity, took the opposite view and as Africa correspondent of the London Sunday newspaper, The Observer, I was to become the focal point of the Tanzanians strategic leaks.
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 Daily Nation On the Web
Nyerere's credentials as official host to liberation movements were put into question in 1964 when he was forced to invite British troops to put down a mutiny of his own army.
Less convincing is the assertion that Nyerere's military intervention in Uganda in 1979 was motivated by a sectarian calculation to defend a mainly Christian Uganda from the Muslim dictator Idi Amin.
Nyerere's voice is was one of the most eloquent voices of the 20th twentieth Century.
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 Al-Ahram Weekly | International | The legacy of a great African   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nyerere was born in 1922 in Butiama, Tanganyika to a Roman Catholic peasant family of humble origins.
Nyerere was likewise tireless in his efforts to bring to book those responsible for the mass genocide in Rwanda in 1994.
Nyerere bequeathed his country and Africa a great legacy, that of unity, solidarity with the poor and down-trodden worldwide and political secularism, together with a real pride in the continent's languages and cultural heritage.
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 Julius Kambarage Nyerere   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
One of Nyerere's politcal achievements in his career was to make the operational capital Dar es Salaam and setup a militarily secure capital in Dodoma.
Nyerere continued as prime minister when Tanganyika became independent in 1961, but he resigned early in 1962 to concentrate on restructuring TANU for its postindependence role.
The 77-year-old statesman was diagnosed with leukaemia in August 1998 and was being treated in a London hospital.
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 Julius Nyerere peee.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Julius Kambarage Nyerere (April 13, 1922 - October 14, 1999) was President of Tanzania of Tanzania, and previously Tanganyika, from the country's founding in 1964 until his retirement in 1985.
Nyerere was instrumental in the union between the islands of Zanzibar and the mainland Tanganyika to form Tanzania, after a coup in Zanzibar in 1964 toppled Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar, who was the Sultan of Zanzibar.
Nyerere was a devout Roman Catholicism who attended Mass (liturgy) daily throughout his public life and was known for fasting frequently.
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 Kituo cha katiba >> Julius Nyerere - Profile
Nyerere was one of the founders of the Organization of African Unity in 1963.
Julius was born on April 13, 1922 in Butiama, on the eastern shore of lake Victoria in north west Tanganyika.
Nyerere’s solution was the collectivization of agriculture, villigization (Ujamma) and large-scale nationalization which was a unique blend of socialism and communal life.
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 Julius Nyerere, lifelong learning and informal education
Julius Kambarage Nyerere was born on April 13, 1922 in Butiama, on the eastern shore of lake Victoria in north west Tanganyika.
In the Declaration of Dar es Salaam Julius Nyerere made a ringing call for adult education to be directed at helping people to help themselves and for it to approached as part of life: 'integrated with life and inseparable from it'.
Nyerere’s life and career are an inspiration to the many Africans who dismiss the notion current in elite African circles today that justice, dignity and freedom should be subordinated to the single-minded pursuit of prosperity through economic liberalisation and structural adjustment.
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 Biography: Julius Kambarage Nyerere
On his return to Tanganyika, Nyerere was forced by the colonial authorities to make a choice between his political activities and his teaching.
Nyerere’s integrity, ability as a political orator and organizer, and readiness to work with different groupings was a significant factor in independence being achieved without bloodshed.
A committed pan-Africanist, Nyerere provided a home for a number of African liberation movements including the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan African Congress (PAC) of South Africa, Frelimo when seeking to overthrow Portuguese rule in Mozambique, Zanla (and Robert Mugabe) in their struggle to unseat the white regime in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Nyerere, Julius Kambarage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
NYERERE, JULIUS KAMBARAGE [Nyerere, Julius Kambarage], c.1922-99, African political leader, first president (1964-85) of Tanzania.
Establishing a one-party state led by the Revolutionary Party of Tanzania (CCM), Nyerere authored a policy of African socialism characterized by economic self-reliance, egalitarianism, and local rural development, but it was ultimately unsuccessful economically.
Nyerere retired from the presidency in 1985 but remained chairman of CCM until 1990.
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 Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere
President Julius Nyerere was one of the great leaders of the African generation that took up the fight against colonialism and the oppression of minorities, and for national independence.
Nyerere played a central role in the establishment of the Organization of African Unity, the OAU, and ensured that the work of the organization was primarily focused on decolonization and the struggle against apartheid and other forms of oppression against minorities.
Julius Nyerere was also a great visionary and paved the way for pioneering initiatives in the social sphere.
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 Julius Nyerere - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Nyerere, Julius Kambarage (1922-1999), first president of Tanzania (1964-1985).
Julius Kambarage Nyerere was born the son of a minor chief in...
As a principled opponent of military rule, Julius Nyerere, the president of neighboring Tanzania, denounced Amin’s seizure of power and permitted...
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 THE DEATH OF JULIUS KAMBARAGE "MWALIMU" NYERERE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The ANC is devastated at the news of the death of Julius Nyerere earlier today.
Julius Kambarage "Mwalimu" Nyerere was an outstanding leader, a brilliant philosopher and a people's hero - a champion for the entire African continent.
Our celebration of these basic rights today is to no small degree as a result of the benevolence of Julius Nyerere and the support, both moral and material, received from Tanzanian people under his rule.
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 AfricaFiles | Julius Kambarage Nyerere - 1922-1999 : Reflections on his legacy
Nyerere saw it as an interim arrangement which would provide for genuine political participation by ordinary Tanzanians while protecting Tanzania from the emergence of divisive ethnic, regional and religious factionalism which could easily destroy its fragile unity.
Nyerere feared that unless development could be pursued in socially equitable ways and modern national equivalents created to the communal values of traditional Tanzanian societies, Tanzania would lose any chance of remaining united and harmonious.
Indeed, by the late 1970's, Nyerere and TANU were themselves coming to recognize that most were inappropriate, indeed counter-productive, to the accomplishment of their objectives.
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 African American Registry: Julius Nyerere, first president of Tanzania
Born the son of a minor chief in Butiama, in what was then British-ruled Tanganyika, Nyerere was educated as a teacher.
Nyerere continued as Prime Minister, until early in 1962 when he resigned to concentrate on restructuring TANU for its post independence role.
Nyerere was addressed throughout Africa as Mwalimu, Swahili for "teacher.” He died in October 1999.
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 Book Reviews - Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era : Biography of Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1922-1999) President of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nyerere implemented a socialist economic programme (announced in the Arusha Declaration), and introduced a policy of collectivization in the country's agricultural system, known as Ujamaa or "familyhood".
Nyerere's disastrous socialist economic policies which kept Tanzania as one of the poorest countries in the world were his major flaw.
Nyerere played a great role in supporting Lumumba and his followers to help keep my country united and free from foreign domination.
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 Mwalimu Julius Nyerere on Socialism
The Father of the Tanzanian Nation, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere was born in 1922 at Butiama village in Mara Region.
Mwalimu Nyerere was convinced that Socialism, or Ujamaa as it was popularly known in Kiswahili, was the only political doctrine that could sufficiently address the ills of capitalism and bring about the intended socio-political and economic development of the oppressed masses in Tanzania and Africa in general.
The definitional problem notwithstanding, Mwalimu Nyerere believed Socialism was an attitude of mind, an ideology which provides for the creation of an egalitarian socialist state in which the major means of production or rather the commanding heights of the economy are controlled and owned by the State.
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 Nyerere, Julius Kambarage - Related Items - MSN Encarta
Nyerere, Julius Kambarage - Related Items - MSN Encarta
Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada, self-proclaimed 'president for life' of Uganda and 'conqueror of the British Empire,' was overthrown this year by a combined force of Ugandan exiles and Tanzanian troops.
In his 100 months in office, since coming to power in a 1971 coup (promising free elections and a...
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 Nyerere, Julius K - Profiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Julius Kambarage Nyerere was the first President of Tanzania, who led the colony of Tanganyika to independence in 1961, and presided over the united Republic of Tanzania until 1985.
By the mid-80s, the economy was quantified as one of the poorest in the world and Nyerere was pressured by the World Bank and IMF to change to an open-market economy and, with the advent of Mwinyi, this change was implemented.
Nyerere is remembered as a great statesman and politician, and also as a writer, intellectual and translator.
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 Nyerere Years
From ANC upon Nyerere's death: "Julius Kambarage 'Mwalimu' Nyerere was an outstanding leader, a brilliant philosopher and a people's hero - a champion for the entire African continent.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called Nyerere "one of the giants of the 20th century African liberation movement," and a lifelong friend of the United Nations.
For his entire life was a life of giving, not taking." From Address by The President of the United Republic of Tanzania, His Excellency Benjamin William Mkapa, at the state funeral for Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, National Stadium, Dar es Salaam, Thursday, 21st October, 1999.
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 Julius Nyerere Fellowship
The founding father of independent Tanzania, Julius Nyerere was the first African statesman to endorse and be actively involved in the National Summit on Africa.
The Nyerere fellowship demonstrates to U.S. policymakers the significance of Africa and motivates them to look at the formulation of their foreign agenda and priorities geared toward the continent.
A politician of principles and intelligence, Julius Nyerere was a symbol of the African independence movement and served as Tanzania's first president after leading the country to independence from Britain in 1961.
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 Julius Nyerere
Nyerere himself couldn't be bothered about the near- derelict state of the residence of a 'mere' retired president, when hospitals were short of drugs and schools of textbooks.
Nyerere had the capacity to engage in the finer details of taxonomy, the biological classification of the plant kingdom, better than the average forester.
Julius Kambarage Nyerere was born at Butiama near the shores of Lake Victoria in the north of Tanganyika.
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