by Nyerere Resource Centre (NRC) Fast forward 50 years, in February 2017, the Nyerere Resource Center (NRC), a partner organization of RLS in East Africa, organized a high level event to mark the 50 years since the Arusha declaration. Read more ... ...
Category: Re-Reading History
Dialogue: Searching for the way: 50 Years after the Arusha Declaration
On February 7th 1967, the then ruling party in Tanzania Mainland (TANU) made a declaration on what would be the national ideology for decades to follow, branded UJAMAA na Kujitegemea. The implementation of the declaration would go on to see mass nationalization of all major private businesses. However, even though the declaration itself is more remembered for its economic and commercial elements (that limited the two ...
The heritage of Mwalimu: Launch of the Nyerere Resource Centre
Former President Benjamin William Mkapa has officially launched the highly anticipated Mwalimu Nyerere Resource Centre at the Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH) in Dar es Salaam. The driver behind the centre is the international well-know lawyer and researcher Prof. Issa Shivji. Since several years Prof. Shivji is member of a team writing a new political biography of the Julius Kambarage Nyerere.
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