The founding father of the United Republic of Tanzania, the late Julius Kambarage Nyerere, popularly known as "Mwalimu," was honoured at the United Nations this week. The Permanent Mission of Tanzania to the United Nations organized the commemoration of Mwalimu Nyerere Day on 14 October. The event coincided with the launch of a book titled "Julius Nyerere: Africa's Titan on a Global Stage: Perspectives from Arusha to Obama."
It has been co-edited by Profesor Ali Mazrui, an
Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities/Professor in Political Science, African Studies and Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture of Binghamton University in New York and Prof. Lindah Mhando, a Tanzanian Professor
of African and African American, and Women Studies at Duke University in North Carolina. UNRadio:
Founding father of Tanzania honoured at United Nations
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Julius Nyerere, Africa's Titan on a Global Stage: Perspectives from Arusha to Obama (Carolina Academic Press African World): Ali A. Mazrui, Lindah L. Mhando: 9781611630855: Amazon.com: Books
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Post-Tribal Nyerere to Post-Racial Obama: Comparative Vision in Political Leadership
Chapter 3. Nyerere, African Politics And I
Chapter 4. The Mwalimu: Method and Mission
Chapter 5. Tanzaphilia: A Political Diagnosi
Chapter 6. Ujamaa Vijijini: Geo-Political Rural Development
Chapter 7. Of Religion, Modernity, and Politics
Chapter 8. Post-Ujamaa: Women, Patriarchy, and Economic Liberalization
Chapter 9. Tanzania as a Case of Heroic Failure: Socialist Effort and Moral Decline
Chapter 10. Of Five Loaves and Two Fishes: Tanzania, Immigration and the Refugee Crisis
Chapter 11. Tanzania versus East Africa: A Case of Unwitting Federal Sabotage
Chapter 12. On Poets and Politicians: Obote's Milton and Nyerere's Shakespeare
Chapter 13. Racial Self-Reliance and Cultural Dependency: Nyerere and Amin in Comparative Perspective
Chapter 14. From Slave Ship to Space Ship: Africa Between Marginalization and Globalization
Chapter 15. Comparative Black Leadership: Walter Rodney, Julius K.Nyerere and Martin Luther King, Jr
Chapter 16. Nationalists and Statesmen: From Nkrumah and de Gaulle to Nyerere and Kissinger
Chapter 17. The Left and the Super-Left in Tanzania
Chapter 18. Socialism as a Mode of International Protest: The Case of Tanzania
Chapter 19. Tanzania Today and the Road to Global World
Conclusion. Tanzania in Comparative Perspective: A Political Experiment in a Cultural Laboratory
