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the Pan African Youth Conference themed 'Beyond Liberation Movements: Shaping our Future'.
PROFILE:
JENERALI ULIMWENGU was born on 4th April 1948 in Ngara, Kagera Region of Tanzania. He went to school in Kamachumu, Katoke and Nyakato in Kagera and high school in Tabora from 1955 to 1968 and was a student of the then University of East Africa from 1969 to 1972.
As a post-Arusha Declaration student at the premier academic and activist University, Ulimwengu was one of the activist radical students espousing progressive causes of African liberation and human emancipation.
After leaving the University, he became an active member of the ruling party, then TANU (Tanganyika Afican National Union) and later CCM ('Chama cha Mapinduzi') as the following brief profile of his post-student service shows.
Daily News, Government Newspaper, from 1972 to 1974;
Mwanza Area Office, 1975;
Pan-African Youth Movement Tanzanian representative in Algiers, from 1974 to 1985;
TANU Youth League, from 1986 to 1987;
Director of Youth and Sports, Ministry of Culture and Sports, from 1987 to 1989.
District Commissioner from 1989 to 1993.
Member of National Executive Committee of the ruling party CCM, from 1992 to 1997; and,
Member of Parliament from 1990 to 1995.
In November 1993, Ulimwengu who is the Chairman of Habari Corporation, together with other committed journalists, established among the first independent weekly in Kiswahili called Rai, which immediately became very popular as the most informative, investigative, analytical and fearless news magazine in the country. In September 1995 and February 1998, their publishing venture launched a Kiswahili daily, Mtanzania and an English daily, the African respectively. Their publishing venture also owned two sports newspapers by this time. In all these, Jenerali Ulimwengu ran personal columns, which were very widely read and appreciated for their singularly patriotic and progressive positions. Ulimwengu did not pull punches in taking critical, but constructive, stances against politicians in the interest of the oppressed, the disadvantaged and the marginalized people of the country, the continent and the world.
Read more Source : WHERE IS JENERALI ULIMWENGU SUPPOSED TO GO? | Pambazuka News
A speech by Jenerali Ulimwengu, a scholar and civil society leader in Tanzania, on Kenya's referendum and new constitution: lessons and implications for the East African region during a public lecture the African Research and Resource Forum (ARRF) held September 23 2010 at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, Kenya.
Alipewa uraia wa kuandikishwa mwaka 2004 chini ya sheria ya uhamiaji Tanzania ya mwaka 1995 kifungu au section 9 (1) na 1 (11).
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