Tanzanian politician and writer Julius Nyerere
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Julius Kambarage Nyerere (Swahili pronunciation: [ËdÊuËlius kÉmËbÉɾÉgÉ É²ÉËɾÉɾÉ]( 13 April 1922 â 14 October 1999) was a Tanzanian anti-colonial activist, politician, and political theorist. He governed Tanganyika as Prime Minister from 1961 to 1962 and then as President from 1963 to 1964, after which he led its successor state, Tanzania, as President from 1964 to 1985. A founding member of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) partyâwhich in 1977 became the Chama Cha Mapinduzi partyâhe chaired it until 1990. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he promoted a political philosophy known as Ujamaa.
Born in Butiama, then in the British colony of Tanganyika, Nyerere was the son of a Zanaki chief. After completing his schooling, he studied at Makerere College in Uganda and then Edinburgh University i
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Monday December 14 2020
Makerere University main building. The university served as the first centre of University of East Africa. PHOTO/FILE.
Summary
Desirous of continuing collaboration between them, the vice-chancellors of Dar es Salaam, Nairobi and Makerere universities decided in the early 1970s to form what they called the Inter-University Committee (IUC), operating under the then East African Community (EAC) established in 1967 by Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
The community, however, collapsed in 1977 but the Inter-University Committee soldiered on.
In 1980, the vice-chancellors of the three universities transformed the Inter-University Committee into the Inter-University Council for East Africa or IUCEA. 50 years later, we reflect on the journey.