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...results have been discouraging. Though Tanzanian farmers have traditionally been among Africa's most productive, the country's pricing and distribution system is notoriously inefficient. The government has been forced to import food to feed the population of Dar es Salaam, the capital. As a result, ujamaa has been allowed to die a quiet death, and roughly 85% of the population has gone back to subsistence farming. Meanwhile, the nationalized industries are working at only about 20% of capacity. Tanzania's expensive 1979 military intervention in neighboring Uganda to topple the brutal dictatorship of Idi Amin further accelerated the economic...
...never sought power for power's sake. He is a real man of the people." Nyerere has abjured personal wealth, and throughout his presidency collected a salary that was lower than that of his Cabinet ministers. The road between the state-house and Nyerere's modest home in Dar es Salaam's Msasani district is said to be full of potholes. When asked why he had not ordered it repaired, Nyerere reportedly answered, "Why should I have a good road to go to work on when the rest of the Tanzanians...
Nyerere's successor is regarded by Western diplomats in Dar es Salaam as a pragmatic politician who has helped maintain Zanzibar's tenuous link to the mainland at a time when Tanzania's pervasive economic problems have caused many Zanzibarians to question the value of that union. A Muslim, Mwinyi is expected to continue Nyerere's socialist economic policies, despite their mixed results. As for Nyerere, he will retain the important post of party chairman for at least the next two years. He plans to travel extensively throughout Tanzania in an effort to restore the peasants' somewhat diminished faith...
...study Africa than the continent itself, unless one really knows what s/he is doing. I’m afraid I feel guilty enough about receiving school credit for the classes I took this semester, which were comically poor. Exchanging another semester at Harvard for one at [the University of Dar es Salaam] would be a grave mistake indeed.” This from a guy who scratched at Harvard’s cage in Cambridge harder and longer than anyone else I know. Another friend’s European accomplishments were upping her already admirable tolerance to alcohol and getting...
...which is translated into English, French and Spanish. It gets 35,000 visitors a day, primarily from young volunteers eager to go anywhere from Mississippi to Uganda. The group also organizes conferences and nonprofit-career workshops. The site is free, and users can browse opportunities by location or mission. Dar says any organization can register, with a few exceptions: "No violence, no illegal action, no rules against people based on who they are. In short, no hate." By Michele Orecklin