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Nyerere excelled at the school, and after six months his exam results were such that he was allowed to skip a grade. [23] He avoided sporting activities and preferred to read in his dormitory during free time. [24] While at the school he also underwent the Zanaki tooth filing ritual to have his upper-front teeth sharpened into triangular points ...
Nyerere was a Tanzanian anti-colonial activist, politician, and political theorist. He governed Tanganyika as prime minister from 1961 to 1962 and then as president from 1962 to 1964, after which he led its successor state, Tanzania , as president from 1964 to 1985.
Nyerere used Ujamaa as the basis for a national development project. He translated the Ujamaa concept into the institutionalization of social, economic, and political equality through the creation of a central democracy; the abolition of discrimination based on ascribed status; and the nationalization of the economy's key sectors.
The Order of Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere (Swahili: Nishani ya Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere) is an award of the Tanzanian Honours System for retired presidents elected democratically. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is named after Julius Nyerere , the nation's first president.
Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere Museum is located at Butiama village - the birth and burial place of the Father of The nation in, Butiama District, Mara Region in Tanzania. The museum was officially opened by the Prime minister of the United Republic of Tanzania, Hon. Frederick Tluway Sumaye on 2 July 1999.
The party was created on February 5, 1977, under the leadership of Julius Kambarage Nyerere, the Founding Father of Tanzania (then Tanganyika) through the merger of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), the ruling party in Tanganyika, and the Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP), the ruling party in Zanzibar.
Julius Nyerere was the first President of Tanzania, serving from the 1960s to 1985. In 1962, Nyerere and TANU created the Ministry of National Culture and Youth. Nyerere felt the creation of the ministry was necessary in order to deal with some of the challenges and contradictions of building a nation-state and a national culture after 70 years ...
Full independence came in December 1961 and Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1922–1999), a socialist leader who led Tanganyika from colonial rule, was elected President in 1961. One of Africa’s most respected figures, Julius Nyerere was seen as a politician of principle and intelligence.