Life under Nyerere
Author: Godfrey Mwakikagile
Paperback: 164 pages
Publisher: New Africa Press (8 December 2006)
ISBN-10: 0980258723
ISBN-13: 978-0980258721
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Book Description:
The author, who lived and grew up under Nyerere's leadership, remembers how life was in those days in his home country of Tanganyika, later Tanzania.
It is more than just a sentimental journey into the past. It is also an assessment of Nyerere's leadership and policies from the perspective of a former journalist. The author worked as a reporter at Tanzania's leading newspaper, "The Daily News," when Nyerere was president.
Included in the book is one of the last interviews Nyerere gave not long before he died in which he reflected on his leadership and even on his student days at Makerere University College in Uganda and at Edinburgh University in Scotland.
Also included is an interview with former Ugandan President Milton Obote in which he talked about Nyerere and the failure to form an East African federation.
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