Faces Of Africa - Mwalimu Julius Nyerere

when we were growing up we didn't have anything to compare our childhood with we were taken to schools which every other Tanzanian went to so we didn't go to any special schools is thing for me was everybody was important it was a super super intelligent leader he lived for what he preached those are reason to question how would turn Zener be without money Julius Nyerere II was Tanzania's first president Tanzania's independence from the British was achieved and without bloodshed near area a teacher by profession chose politics over teaching travelled throughout the country speaking to tribal chiefs and common people about the case of independence he forged a relationship with British Governor Sir Richard Turnbull and convinced London to allow elections on the 9th of December 1961 Tanzania became a nation known as Mali mo the Swahili word for teacher Meera had a vision of education and social action that is his legacy this house here is where we might while my father was president that's the house where we used to come to when he when when he used to spend his end-of-the-year holidays in December so that's the only house way which he owned at that time apart from the other house he has in Darussalam which he built through a governor a bank loan now even his colleagues in government when they saw this house they felt that it was too small even for a socialist president and so they decided to build another house for him on the other side of the village and and that's where I from around the 1980s where he used to stay it's a childhood which we didn't have so much contact with with families of other leaders of other heads of state or presidents I remember the only time that we had contact with another family was with President counters family when we were growing up we didn't have anything to compare our childhood with and we were taken to two schools which every other Tanzanian went to so we didn't go to any special schools the area has been described as cheerful always seen smiling and being a man of the people I went into villages where he was talking and being with people and then later I was with him when he meant Prince Charles and the thing that struck me all the time is he talked to bad dignitary Prince Charles in the same way he talked to the mama in the village to the MJ in the village to the child his his thing for me was everybody was important and he addressed everybody was taking time and speaking with them and that taught me a lot this is my father's collection of books they're all types of subjects is a large section on philosophy we have books on politics oh we have autobiographies we have books on agriculture and religion almost almost everything there more than 8,000 books here and he he read a lot of books all the time and so most of the books in here he actually bought himself but some of the books were given to him by various authors and sometimes by individuals who thought he might be interested to read a certain book and he read almost everything which is in here education is being given lip service I think because we still depend on the government to to deliver education to to the people but the problem is this we lays emphasis on buildings so when you travel around the country you'll see a lot of buildings this is the primary school is a secondary school but the quality of education does not match the investment which we have in buildings before independence education was not for all in Tanzania near area put in place an educational policy called education for self-reliance this was to ensure that as many Tanzanian children from all communities could get equal learning opportunities the beneficiaries of this education system look back and compare those times to the present I can say the quality of education the quality of teachers we heard the quality of knowledge we were being given in primary and secondary school was better than we are what we are having to today I went to a government school I attended all of my education was through government school it's very strange for us who you know graduated went to school in those years to see you know kids sitting on the floor this everyone had that decent you know desk seat at least everyone was you know had a book it's news to us that the kids are sharing books now so everything was almost adequate well this one it is addition it is edition Secondary School was where identity started changing because for the first time you went to a school where there are peasants who ran seven miles to school with the shoes in the hands when the rainy season because if you had any dirt on your shoes or your socks that's it you work and discipline was very strong mirre was a patron of the Arts and Culture in Tanzania he supported sister Jeanne Pruett in establishing numbe asana a cultural center and art workshop the center was intended to promote local fine art and many of Tanzania's leading artists began their careers there this is the draft of the book that I began the intention of the book as we're speaking of my Lemonnier is the intention really to preserve his legacy his legacy to artists it was he who gave us that land and it was he who gave us the entree to the donors to build this wonderful gallery and home for artists and so one of the ways to preserve that legacy is to preserve the art that was produced over 30 30 years in the in this sacred space of nubia sana we had our first exhibition 1975 at the National Museum with beautiful textiles at that time wonderful wood cuts watercolors so on they had these wonderful watercolors and wood cuts and just fabulous works about and then that reminded me reminds me of my Limu one day I get this little envelope of red seeds and he sends me a note I found these on the grounds don't you think you can make nice use these for nice jewelry and so yes we made the earrings and we sent them to this is what you know so he was even always mindful of us in so many ways that he found these beautiful red seeds and they do make wonderful beads for jewelry so we made we made a very red sea jewel when a kombucha Newport ah dr. 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ministries agencies departments to have groups performing groups although on one hand it has been seen like it is kind of a propaganda kind of art but it's of admit they they are more visible than we are doing today as the nation's first president Julius near area implemented an economic program that many labeled socialist he introduced a policy of collectivization in the country's agricultural system known as ojama or family hood we had to take measures to stop famine actually people are not dying people have not died of starvation in Tanzania since we took over they were dying before we took over nearly aimed to make people return to their traditional modes of life before British colonial influences first and foremost the peasant to peasant because he is the producer of the food for the majority of the population of any country in Africa at present so first of all pay that attention to the peasant take the peasant and treat him as a God in the agriculture sector villages were set up across Tanzania with the aim of growing food both for domestic use and sale I think it was very as a very interesting period in 1967 when he already declared the part adopted Yama the police'll Yama and could you take away many socialism and self-reliance there are many factors are not going to that by the important point was that it was a kind of a climax of a radical radical nationalism and people who talk about this nonsense about about the the socialism failing they took a lot of rubbish there's no proof it's something they've read and they say Tanzania socialist Tanzania has problems about food therefore it must be because they're socialist that they have problems about food but I'm telling you in the meantime the best the best farms in Tanzania the best farms in Tanzania in the production of wheat or in the production of maize or in the production of of rice a state-run room Aharon that we had deliberately refused to import things so that we can you know improve our our local that was one of the reasons thought I never nobody used to complain you will never hear anyone complaining about the leadership then we knew whatever we're going through it's because it's for the better had we not been socialists would have collapsed you yes simply go around I'm saying go around and discover that had we not been socialists had we not been following the policies which we announced in 1967 we would have collapsed you today I today this house was built for my father by the Tanzanian army as a present to him the commander-in-chief for winning the war against Uganda's Idi Amin that was in 1979 the Uganda war was fought between Uganda and Tanzania in 1978 to 1979 after a mean seized power in a military coup in 1971 Neera offered safety to Uganda's rousted President Milton Obote ta Amin blamed near area for backing and arming his enemies Uganda declared a state of war against Tanzania and sent troops to capture part of the Kagera region of Tanzania which Amin claimed belonged to Uganda and then came this invasion of Kagera I mean claiming southern parts of Danika so long as he was simply talking that in the speeches it was fine it could be answered but then he actually moved his troops now that is where only we had to take a position okay and prepare to defend the Tate to integrity of the country and that is how the war broke out near immobilized the Tanzanian people's Defence Forces and counter-attacked in a few weeks the Tanzanian army was expanded from less than 40,000 troops to over 100,000 the Ugandan army retreated steadily effect of that pour on the country was enormous economically it was enormous I turning-point in many ways from which we could not easily recover now that accompanied by the economy crisis the war and then the overall international economy crisis is when we then began to get into real problems in the last five years of volume over 98-85 very bad for Tanzania even speaking for when president Nelson Mandela took his seat to represent a non-racial post apartheid democratic South Africa the final objective the first objective of the founding fathers had been achieved our continent had been totally liberated from colonialism and racial minority rule a die-hard supporter of African liberation nearly welcomed freedom fighters from all over the continent into Tanzania in the 1960s and 70s in our area along with other Pan Africanist leaders founded the organization of African Unity in 1963 near area supported several militant groups active in Africa the whole of 60s all over Africa it was the nationalist period the liberation movements because some countries had not yet obtained their independence the southern African countries and one of the important positions of the OAU which a little Molly were pushed was the liberation of the whole of Africa the end of colonialism the high mark would be the day Lusaka manifesto of 1968 you know where the countries of the region you know declared why they had to opt for for for for armed struggle this struggle for freedom lasted for 30 years from the inception of the organization of African Unity in 1963 to the independence of South Africa in 1994 when Mandela and when he came to Tanzania oh I just wanted so bad Simon and uh and of course my name I knew this and so the day that he was here I didn't know the arrangements of course and I had already booked I had a meeting in Arusha so I had a ticket I was on the way out of my door and here's a State House car coming to pick me up to go and meet Mandela but I couldn't go because I had this commitment so I was so sad because I had to go I just couldn't keep this commitment so when I got back I got his call from when Iman he says I'm to my house for dinner so I went to his house and he says since you miss Mandela you can sit with me and we can watch Mandela this is it to Tanzania so here I am sitting beside and of course tears falling down my face watching with my limo the visit of Mandela that was an awesome moment Neera became the first chairman of the frontline States and in 1976 he invited other prominent leaders to Tanzania for talks he hoped would lead to majority rule for white minority run Rhodesia 1980 was a proud year when Rhodesia became the independent Zimbabwe Namibia - fought hard to free itself from the clutches of South Africa and nirav out to help in 1968 samo new German president of Southwest Africa people's organization SWAPO flew to Tanzania to attend talks at the Council for Southwest Africa neuromas army of freedom fighters was engaged in a grisly war against white South African soldiers trying desperately to hold on to their colony in 1990 Namibia celebrated Independence Day and no DOMA was sworn in as president I've claimed that the third world does exist and as a meaning which can be used for the betterment of the masses of four people in the world Neera once said without unity there is no future for Africa through his role in the liberation of African states he stood true to these words my warning to our people is directed at both ends never be complacent always examine yourself can't you do better couldn't you do better but don't be so self-critical that that you despair despair is then forgivable sin Julius Nyerere died of leukemia in 1999 in a London hospital but he will be remembered and revered in Tanzania for generations to come this mausoleum was built as part of the construction of the house actually when he was buried in 1999 it was just an open grave I was not open actually a grave but with just with a shelter with a simple shelter it was about two years later that it was decided to build this mausoleum around around here so I'm sure if he knew about this he would have left instructions not to have any complicated structure around his his grave I was a first-year student at University of Dar es Salaam and they and when the news broke there was mass crier from the halls of residence everybody was like shocked crying and that was so tough because people knew he was sick but the fact that his he has died that becomes an issue so you could feel like the generation we were at the invest of Dar es Salaam it's not that generation say we well we worked with Molly bloom we were the people who were used to to read and perhaps the last product of his leadership and that was that the memorial can remember but people were really crying shouting and almost for the about two weeks or so things were than steel I was with him when he left Tanzania or was at the plane and with the family when he left and it was quite unwell at the time and even there we were talking about Nubia sauna there we were talking about the future Nubia sand island the difficulties in his last hours in Tanzania we were talking about in DSM his concerns and his words and so on I received his blessing as he got on on the plane and he went off okay economist mokuba sauna hot sauna kombucha Veera Arabic wanna hunger Arriva near alimony osseous query knock aleppo barakah zilla's dicamba a shock when de la mera mera ninkey Kweli Nellie's Kia vibhishana whaling was during the time that he was dying everybody was fixed to there through the radios to the telephone talk to the taxi driver talk to the shopkeeper everybody was was a tomb to this illness of a great father of their country and then as a father they were that attuned everywhere everywhere and tears that were flowing in this country even now a devout Catholic Neera is being considered for sainthood Catholic Bishops in Tanzania have began the process if this process is successful he will become the first president to be made a saint yes he is being considered for sainthood during the process our Catholics are encouraged to pray to the candidate for certain miracles one of the things she said I don't want things named after me and he didn't he didn't want things marked for him he didn't want his thing's name for him so this canonization seemed most uncomfortable but the first stage of the and the first title that you get is servant of God and I said yeah he would like that yeah there was a political leader he was not a leader at church leader he was not a clergyman he was not a leader of a particular community or particular faith he was a political leader now he's a man of a great job when I look at his picture you know I miss him so I really miss him oye oye oye oye oye oye oye oye oye oye oye oye oye oye oye oye oye oye

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Published: Mon Dec 30 2013