Even by the low standards of a country used to being regularly condemned for human rights abuses, disregarding international law and committing war crimes,
President Robert Mugabe says former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere deserves to be honoured as one of Africa's true liberation heroes. Nyerere accommodated most of the liberation movements from Southern Africa and experimented with a new form of socialism in his country before opening up to capitalism. Here is what he thought about change and leadership,
Twenty-nine years after democracy, the glow has faded, and people and governments on the rest of the continent are genuinely heartbroken by the turn of events in the land of ubuntu.