JokaKuu
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" I was in Washington last year. At the World Bank the first question they asked me was `how did you fail?' I responded that we took over a country with 85 per cent of its adult population illiterate. The British ruled us for 43 years. When they left, there were 2 trained engineers and 12 doctors. This is the country we inherited. When I stepped down there was 91-per-cent literacy and nearly every child was in school. We trained thousands of engineers and doctors and teachers. In 1988 Tanzania's per-capita income was $280. Now, in 1998, it is $140. So I asked the World Bank people what went wrong. Because for the last ten years Tanzania has been signing on the dotted line and doing everything the IMF and the World Bank wanted. Enrolment in school has plummeted to 63 per cent and conditions in health and other social services have deteriorated. I asked them again: `what went wrong?' These people just sat there looking at me. Then they asked what could they do? I told them have some humility. Humility - they are so arrogant!" - Mwalimu Nyerere, 1998
..World Bank ya wakati wa Bob McNamara ambaye alikuwa rafiki yake Mwalimu walitupa misaada na mikopo mingi tu.
..kulitokea mabadiliko ya kisera[free market policies] huko WB na IMF na jamaa wakawa hostile kwa nchi za kijamaa kama Tanzania.
..nadhani hapo Mwalimu alikuwa na hasira tu na hao jamaa. hiyo ilikuwa ni fursa nzuri sana ya kuyachambua matatizo yetu, badala ya kutoa kauli za kijeuri.