Africa’s Liberation: The Legacy of Nyerere

Chambi Chachage is an independent researcher, newspaper columnist and policy analyst. Annar Cassam is a former personal assistant of PresidentJulius Kambarage Nyerere and a former director of the UNESCO Bureau at the United Nations office in Geneva, Switzerland."

The death in 1999 of Julius Nyerere, Tanzanias first president, left a cavern in the consciousness and conscience of the people of Tanzania and Africa. Nyerere was a Pan-Africanist and internationalist and a giant of the liberation movement. This book includes contributions from leading commentators, those who fought imperialism alongside Nyerere, members of a younger generation, and Nyerere himself. Their writings reflect on Nyerere and liberation, the Commonwealth, leadership, economic development, land, human rights, and education. Above all, they are a testament to the need to rekindle the fires of African liberation to which Nyerere was deeply committed.

1 Preface - How we wish you were here: a tribute to Mwalimu Nyerere - Firoze Manji 2 Introduction - Annar Cassam 3 A short biography of Nyerere - Madaraka Nyerere 4 But dear Mwalimu - Neema Ndunguru 5 Mwalimu in our popular imagination: the relevance of Nyerere today - Chambi Chachage 6 El Mussawar interviews President Nyerere - Nawal El Saadawy 7 Reading history backwards with Mwalimu - Seithy Chachage 8 Mwalimu Julius Nyerere: an intellectual in power - Haroub Othman 9 Julius Nyerere: between state-centred and people-centred Pan-Africanism - Horace Campbell 10 Nyerere, the Organization of African Unity and liberation - Mohamed Sahnoun 11 Nyerere and the Commonwealth - Chief Emeka Anyaoku talks to Annar Cassam 12 El Pais interviews President Nyerere - Ana Camacho 13 Reflecting with Nyerere on people-centred leadership - Marjorie Mbilinyi 14 Nyerere's vision of economic development - Faustin Kamuzora 15 Mwalimu Nyerere's ideas on land - Ng'wanza Kamata 16 The village in Mwalimu's thought and political practice - Issa G. Shivji 17 Racial and religious tolerance in Nyerere's political thought and practice - Salma Maoulidi 18 Mwalimu Nyerere and the challenge of human rights - Helen Kijo-Bisimba and Chris Maina Peter 19 Mwalimu Nyerere: the artist - Vicensia Shule 20 Mwalimu and the state of education - Chambi Chachage