Julius Nyerere, born on this day in 1922, was a socialist and anti-colonial Tanzanian politician who promoted a Pan-Africanist ideology known as Ujamaa, which means “extended family” or “brotherhood” in Swahili.
Julius Kambarage Nyerere was born on April 13, 1922 in Butiama, on the eastern shore of lake Victoria in north west Tanganyika. His father was the chief of the small Zanaki tribe. He was 12 before he started school (he had to walk 26 miles to Musoma to do so). Later, he transferred for his secondary education to the Tabora Government Secondary School. His intelligence was quickly recognized by the Roman Catholic fathers who taught him. He went on, with their help, to train as a teacher at Makerere University in Kampala (Uganda). On gaining his Certificate, he taught for three years and then went on a government scholarship to study history and political economy for his Master of Arts at the University of Edinburgh (he was the first Tanzanian to study at a British university and only the second to gain a university degree outside Africa. In Edinburgh, partly through his encounter with Fabian thinking, Nyerere began to develop his particular vision of connecting socialism with African communal living.
On his return to Tanganyika, Nyerere was forced by the colonial authorities to make a choice between his political activities and his teaching. He was reported as saying that he was a schoolmaster by choice and a politician by accident. Working to bring a number of different nationalist factions into one grouping he achieved this in 1954 with the formation of TANU (the Tanganyika African National Union). He became President of the Union (a post he held until 1977), entered the Legislative Council in 1958 and became chief minister in 1960. A year later Tanganyika was granted internal self-government and Nyerere became premier. Full independence came in December 1961.
In 1962, Nyerere was elected the first president of Tanganyika, a predecessor to modern Tanzania and a newly independent republic. His administration emphasized decolonizing society and the state, also unsuccessfully pursuing a Pan-Africanist East African Federation with Uganda and Kenya.
In 1967, Nyerere issued the “Arusha Declaration”, forbidding government leaders from owning shares or holding directorates in private companies, receiving more than one salary, or owning any houses that they rented to others. In compliance with this declaration, Nyerere sold his second home and his wife donated her poultry farm to a local co-operative.
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. In this he was helped by the co-operative attitude of the last British governor — Sir Richard Turnbull. In 1964, following a coup in Zanzibar (and an attempted coup in Tanganyika itself) Nyerere negotiated with the new leaders in Zanzibar and agreed to absorb them into the union government. The result was the creation of the Republic of Tanzania.
Nyerere’s government also aided in liberation struggles elsewhere in Africa, training and aiding anti-apartheid South African groups and helping to depose Ugandan ruler Idi Amin. In 1985, Nyerere stepped down as President and was succeeded by Ali Hassan Mwinyi in a notably peaceful and stable transition of power.
“Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and humiliated.”
Julius Nyerere
- Biography : Julius Kambarage Nyerere
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(Fundamentally misunderstanding my relationship with my realtor) yeah I think she’s into me, she keeps asking me about my work and living situation.
Some local soc dems have adopted a weather vane as a symbol.
I have no further comments.
Anime reviewers watch so much garbage that when they see an ok show they praise it to heaven, when you barely watch anime and go to see it you realize it’s good by their sick and twisted standards.
Kinda fucked that the only real difference between humans today and humans 60k years ago is material conditions. Like they were just trynna get by just like me fr fr but they were getting eaten by tigers and shit and I get a little nervous going to the bank.
Been in a band for 10 years, and in the middle of March I hit my burnout point and walked out of a practice to just go home. This started a domino effect that lead to 2 of the 4 of us quitting, and we haven’t gotten together since that night.
I don’t listen to the kind of music we play anymore. I don’t feel connected. I don’t want to play shows. The last tour we did sucked shit and lead to me relapsing when I got home.
However, we do have stuff booked here and there, and I’m not gonna leave anyone hanging on that front. This Monday, we’re all getting together to run a set, figure out transport for a few gigs this week, and just talk about the future. Have to tell the other person left “hey, I don’t wanna do anything in May either.” It’s gonna suck and I’ve already caused a lot of disappointment, but I gotta put my well being first, and I’ve wanted a break for a long long time, but never had the courage to say anything about it.
That’s kinda the thing about me, and something I focus on a lot in therapy - I keep stuff locked in, hide stuff from people, even lie sometimes to keep peace. I hate it when people are mad at me, worried about me, disappointed in me, pretty much anything negative directed at me. I don’t handle it well, and it scares me to death.
Really not looking forwards to this week.
I replied to another comment that mentioned this yesterday, but I know there’s lots of
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I don’t know how or why this didn’t phase him or that he didn’t think to look into it, beyond maybe just trusting Dan and his mom as a friend, but I think it’s bad enough that signal boosting it could cause them to cancel the event entirely or find another organizer since it’s a year away.
I emailed him and Kate at their business emails strongly urging them to do so.
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cw: suicide, attempted murder
So my (apolitical/lib) friend is friends with a couple who are both cops. Yesterday she told me that the husband had died, she didn’t know why but thought he might’ve gotten killed on the job.
Today she told me that it was actually an attempted murder-suicide that was only prevented because the wife hid behind a reinforced door, so the guy only got himself. Apparently she wanted to break up with him and he decided to take them both out.
My friend was obviously distraught by this so I only consoled her but ngl I kinda had to hold my tongue. She thought the dude died a heroic death fighting crime but nope, just another cop turned failed family annihilator. What a pathetic way to die. What is it about being a cop that makes you abuse your partner?
If skyrim doesnt want you to be an archer then why stupid dragons just love to float waste your fucking time and be arrow fodder.
Magic would have been good ranged option but the bethesda chuds forgets the enchantment that boost spell damage so youre cooked
Is it bad that I like when my girlfriend speaks for me sometimes? I don’t always have the social energy to even ask for coffee at the local coffee shop, I want her to do it for me while I bury my face in her shoulder to avoid eye contact with strangers. I didn’t get much sleep last night and I’m in a mode where I don’t want to mask my autism at all and just want to be babied. Usually she doesn’t speak for me, but she’ll start doing it when I’m really socially drained and I find it very endearing and sweet
scp going from bookish, autistic teenage boy culture to youtube video-essayslop is kind of really sad ngl
The state of the world is fucking weird and everybody is acting extremely normal.
for the longest time I thought this emoji was like a beatnik finger snapping emojiIt’s really tragic that the Vtuber Camila lost family members because of the recent bombing campaign
undertook in South Lebanon, but there’s also a cosmic unfairness that we havent heard of any similar loses from any israeli vtubers.Then it occured to me that there might not actually be any popular
vtubers to begin with
