With the death of Julius Nyerere, the world has lost one of the foremost proponents of African Socialism. Nyerere's humanist vision known as UJAMAA influenced several generations of Africans as well ...

History reminds us that leadership was not always hollow . There were men who believed nations could be transformed, not ...

Edwin Mtei, Tanzania’s first central bank governor, showed that people can hold different views without enmity.

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 ...

Edwin Mtei was a rare figure in post-independence Tanzania, a senior insider who challenged Julius Nyerere, paid the price, ...

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 ...

This message carries deep echoes of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s founding president and one of Africa’s greatest pan-African ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...