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Nyerere's self-exile actually served as a long election campaign. In November 1962, with Tanganyika becoming a republic, he ran for President and took 98% of the 1,100,000 votes cast...
British university. There he whipped his white friends at word games, studiously subdued the crossword puzzles in the Scotsman, and whetted the "politics of complaint," which would lead him to the presidency of Tanganyika. Then he went home...
...Tanganyika's Tabora Secondary School, he got good grades and was converted to Roman Catholicism, but never made "head boy"-his teachers found him not enough of a disciplinarian. At Uganda's Makerere University, he won first prize in the regional literary competition. His essay: an application of John Stuart Mill's arguments for feminism to the tribal societies of Tanganyika. After three years of teaching biology, he won a scholarship to Edinburgh, and in 1949 became the first Tanganyikan ever to study...
Forging a Party. On July 7, 1954, Nyerere converted a social club into the Tanganyika African National Union. TANU was his from then on. Off into the back country he went to recruit members and cut tribal bonds. Wearing green bush shirts, slacks and leather sandals, waving an ivory-topped cane and chain-smoking Clipper cigarettes (he has since stopped), Nyerere began touring Tanganyika in a battered Land Rover. "I still remember the license-DSK 750," he reminisces. "We had to push so often over the mudholes that I will never forget it." A low-key speaker who never talked...
Loading the Rifles. Nyerere had always insisted on equality for all races in the new Tanganyika-for whites and Arabs as well as for the black majority. However, during his first two years, he had compromised to the extent of implementing an Africanization program aimed at filling government jobs with Africans. Then last January he made an announcement that ultimately reverberated up and down the length of East Africa's Great Rift. "It would be wrong of us to continue to distinguish between Tanganyikan citizens on any ground other than character and ability," he told the nation. "We cannot...