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  "textContent": "submitted by thelastaxolotl to chapotraphouse\n61 points | 55 comments\n\n\nJulius Nyerere, born on this day in 1922, was a socialist and anti-colonial Tanzanian politician who promoted a Pan-Africanist ideology known as Ujamaa, which means “extended family” or “brotherhood” in Swahili.\n\nJulius Kambarage Nyerere was born on April 13, 1922 in Butiama, on the eastern shore of lake Victoria in north west Tanganyika. His father was the chief of the small Zanaki tribe. He was 12 before he started school (he had to walk 26 miles to Musoma to do so). Later, he transferred for his secondary education to the Tabora Government Secondary School. His intelligence was quickly recognized by the Roman Catholic fathers who taught him. He went on, with their help, to train as a teacher at Makerere University in Kampala (Uganda). On gaining his Certificate, he taught for three years and then went on a government scholarship to study history and political economy for his Master of Arts at the University of Edinburgh (he was the first Tanzanian to study at a British university and only the second to gain a university degree outside Africa. In Edinburgh, partly through his encounter with Fabian thinking, Nyerere began to develop his particular vision of connecting socialism with African communal living.\n\nOn his return to Tanganyika, Nyerere was forced by the colonial authorities to make a choice between his political activities and his teaching. He was reported as saying that he was a schoolmaster by choice and a politician by accident. Working to bring a number of different nationalist factions into one grouping he achieved this in 1954 with the formation of TANU (the Tanganyika African National Union). He became President of the Union (a post he held until 1977), entered the Legislative Council in 1958 and became chief minister in 1960. A year later Tanganyika was granted internal self-government and Nyerere became premier. Full independence came in December 1961.\n\nIn 1962, Nyerere was elected the first president of Tanganyika, a predecessor to modern Tanzania and a newly independent republic. His administration emphasized decolonizing society and the state, also unsuccessfully pursuing a Pan-Africanist East African Federation with Uganda and Kenya.\n\nIn 1967, Nyerere issued the “Arusha Declaration”, forbidding government leaders from owning shares or holding directorates in private companies, receiving more than one salary, or owning any houses that they rented to others. In compliance with this declaration, Nyerere sold his second home and his wife donated her poultry farm to a local co-operative.\n\nNyerere’s integrity, ability as a political orator and organizer, and readiness to work with different groupings was a significant factor in independence being achieved without bloodshed. In this he was helped by the co-operative attitude of the last British governor — Sir Richard Turnbull. In 1964, following a coup in Zanzibar (and an attempted coup in Tanganyika itself) Nyerere negotiated with the new leaders in Zanzibar and agreed to absorb them into the union government. The result was the creation of the Republic of Tanzania.\n\nNyerere’s government also aided in liberation struggles elsewhere in Africa, training and aiding anti-apartheid South African groups and helping to depose Ugandan ruler Idi Amin. In 1985, Nyerere stepped down as President and was succeeded by Ali Hassan Mwinyi in a notably peaceful and stable transition of power.\n\n> “Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and humiliated.”\n\nJulius Nyerere\n\n  * Biography : Julius Kambarage Nyerere\n\n\n\n**Megathreads and spaces to hang out:**\n\n  * 🐻 Link to all Hexbear comms hexbear.net/post/1403966\n  * 🐼 Hexbear Matrix Chat matrix.to/#/#Hexbear:matrix.org\n  * 📀 Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube](live.hexbear.net/c/movies\n  * 🔥 Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread hexbear.net/post/8026521\n  * ⚔ Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread hexbear.net/post/8030647\n  * 🏳️‍⚧️ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread hexbear.net/post/8034428\n  * 👊 New Weekly Improvement thread hexbear.net/post/8027723\n  * 🧡 Disabled comm megathread hexbear.net/post/7886148\n  * ☕ Parenting Chat hexbear.net/post/8025314\n  * 🐉 Anime & Manga discussion thread hexbear.net/post/7546692\n  * 🎩Fashion megathread hexbear.net/post/7228810\n  * 🎨 Art & Drawings megathread hexbear.net/post/8070591\n\n\n\n**reminders:**\n\n  * 💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics\n  * 💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears\n  * 💜 Sorting by new you nerd\n  * 🐶 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog\n\n\n\n**Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):**\n\n**Aid:**\n\n  * 🌈 LGBTQ+ Resource Post\n  * 🍉 Resources for Palestine\n  * 🐌☕ Zapatista Coffee\n\n\n\n**Theory:**\n\n  * ❤️Foundations of Leninism\n  * ❤️Anarchism and Other Essays\n\n\n\n**Financial Support to the Bearsite**\n\n  * 🇨🇳 liberapay.com/hexbear\n\n  * 🇷🇺 www.patreon.com/hexbear\n\n\n",
  "title": "Julius Nyerere - Novo General Megathread for the 11th-18th of April 2025"
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