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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Marcus, Hannah

Titel

Julius Nyerere: At the Crossroads of Postcolonial Tanzania's Reconstructed Socioeconomic and Political Reality

Ist Teil von

• The International journal of African historical studies, 2020-09, Vol.53 (3), p.413

Ort / Verlag

New York: Boston University

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• At the dawn of national independence from colonial rule, many African nations saw the rise of powerful nationalist leaders who had helped catapult their liberation from the grips of imperial control, emerging with revolutionary aspirations for the future development of their new states. Julius Nyerere, founder of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), which had long fought for Tanganyika's national sovereignty, embodied this form of leadership in the newly independent state of Tanganyika in 1961, where he served as the nation's first prime minister, later becoming the first president of the United Republic of Tanzania upon unity with Zanzibar in 1964. Here, Marcus discusses postcolonial Tanzania's reconstructed socioeconomic and political reality.