Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere, a Swahili advocate. Keystone/Getty Images Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu ...

Secretary General, Dr Asha-Rose Migiro has called on the founding parties of the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Leadership School (MJNLS) to fully leverage the institution as a strategic platform for ...

Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino. —Julius Nyerere (1961) The aspirations that accompanied African independence ...

How does a leader wreck a country's economy and still die an international hero? Julius Nyerere's imposition of Ujamma, or "familyhood," on newly independent Tanzania in 1961 was a signal failure. A ...

The principled independence that defined African diplomacy from Bandung to Pretoria was forged in a world of two competing ...

We grew up on songs and dreams, we who were the children and youth of the 1960s, all the way to the early ‘1980s. We believed in angels and in the goodness of people. We often crooned along with the ...

In the formative years of Tanganyika’s independence, Julius Nyerere and Oscar Kambona were inseparable partners in statecraft—a visionary philosopher-president and his politically astute lieutenant ...

Luke Melchiorre received funding from International Development Research Council (IDRC) for this project. Magufuli leads Chama Cha Mapinduzi, one of the longest serving ruling parties in Africa. It is ...

Dar es Salaam, which means “haven of peace” in Arabic, was a haven of tumultuous confusion last week during celebrations marking uhuru (freedom). A British-administered United Nations trusteeship for ...