Julius Nyerere
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Julius Nyerere
Paul Bjerk
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bjerk, Paul, author.
Title: Julius Nyerere / Paul Bjerk.
Other titles: Ohio short histories of Africa.
Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2017. | Series: Ohio short histories of Africa | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017004209| ISBN 9780821422601 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821445969 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Nyerere, Julius K., 1922–1999. | Presidents—Tanzania—Biography. | Nation-building—Tanzania. | Tanzania—History—20th century. | Tanzania—Politics and government—20th century.
Classification: LCC DT448.25.N9 B542 2017 | DDC 967.8041092—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017004209
Contents
1. Mwalimu Nyerere: A Study in Leadership
2. Coming of Age in an African Colony, 1922–53
3. TANU and Tanzanian Independence, 1954–64
4. Ujamaa and the Race for Self-Reliance, 1965–77
5. Confronting a Continent in Crisis, 1978–90
6. An Unquiet Retirement, 1991–99
Illustrations
Figures
1.1. The independence cabinet, 1961
1.2. President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania with President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, 1965
3.1. Chief Minister Julius Nyerere with Bibi Titi Mohamed, Umoja wa Wanawake (UWT) chairperson Sophia Kawawa, and Maria Nyerere
3.2. The Constitutional Conference, March 1961
3.3. Second Vice President Rashidi Kawawa, in his office, mid-1960s
4.1. President Julius Nyerere with Premier Zhou Enlai of China, 1965
4.2. President Julius Nyerere greets a member of the Ujamaa Group in the Junior TANU Youth League, ca. 1975
4.3. President of Zanzibar and First Vice President of Tanzania Sheikh Abeid Karume, ca. 1965
4.4. President Julius Nyerere greets Coretta Scott King in the United States, 1977
6.1. Retired president Mwalimu Julius Nyerere with