Historia ya mkono wa Mwl. J.K Nyerere na Tanzania katika siasa za Afrika:
The late
President Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo also lived in Tanzania for more than 20 years since the sixties after the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, his hero, and even owned houses in Dar es Salaam where he was also known by different aliases, prompting his neighbors and other people to suspect that he was a government agent.
His son
Joseph Kabila who succeeded him as president was born and raised, and attended school in Dar es Salaam and in Mbeya, Tanzania. In fact, many Congolese refused to accept him as their leader when first became president because they saw him as a foreigner, a Tanzanian, who did not even speak Lingala or French, the main languages spoken in Congo, but instead spoke only English and Kiswahili, Tanzania's national language, although Kiswahili is also widely spoken in Congo.
President R
obert Mugabe also lived in Tanzania and Mozambique during Zimbabwe's liberation war. So di
d Dr. Agostinho Neto, the first president of Angola, and
Sam Nujoma, president of Namibia, and many of their colleagues in government.
I remember interviewing
Sam Nujoma in 1972 at the office of his liberation movement, the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), on Market Street in Dar es Salaam, only a few minutes' walk from our newspaper office on Azikiwe Street and from the offices of three other liberation movements: Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), and the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) of South Africa.
Many
other leaders found sanctuary in Tanzania. They include those from
the Seychelles and the Comoros, two island nations on the Indian Ocean east and southeast of Tanzania, respectively; and
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda who attended the University of Dar es Salaam and lived in Tanzania for many years and who - after he became president - continued to express profound respect and admiration for Nyerere whom he acknowledged as his mentor.7
They include
many who became leaders in Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, Ghana, Nigeria, Guinea, Congo, Zambia, besides those in southern Africa - Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia, South Africa - and other countries. Even Che Guevara spent months in Tanzania. He was in Dar es Salaam for about four months from November 1965 to February 1966, besides the time he spent in the western apart of the country during his Congo mission.
the late distinguished
Professor Claude Ake from Nigeria who died in a mysterious plane crash in his home country in 1996;
Professor Okwudiba Nnoli, also from Nigeria (secessionist Biafra);
Professor Mahmood Mamdani from Uganda and one of Africa's internationally renowned scholars;
NathanShamuyarira who - while a lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam - was also the leader of the Dar-es-Salaam-based Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe (FROLIZI) headed by
James Chikerema, a Zimbabwean national leader.
Shamuyarira went on to become Zimbabwe's minister of foreign affairs, among other ministerial posts. Many other prominent scholars from many countries around the world, and from all continents, were also attracted to the University of Dar es Salaam.
Sources: Godfrey Mwakikagile, "NYERERE AND AFRICA: END OF AN ERA: EXPANDED EDITION
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