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Kwenye ukweli uongo lazima utajitenga, pamoja na baadhi ya wakenya kumsema vibaya Mwalimu Nyerere, lakini wengi wao wanaendelea kumuenzi na kumkumbuka miaka 20 baada ya kifo chake. R.I.P Mwalimu.
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In his address during the launch of the popular Arusha Declaration on February 5, 1967, then Tanzanian President Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere laid the footprint for the onslaught on the pernicious colonial masters.
Mwalimu outlined the principles of Ujamaa which he called African Socialism; principles that were to guide the economy of the newly independent nation rooted in the concept of self-reliance.
He used the podium to deconstruct the popular belief that no money no development and instead championed the need for collective effort in attaining national goals while restoring the value of the salary. That was in 1967.
Fast forward 2020 and in a country called Kenya, the subtle nature of the political class is a direct contrast of what Mwalimu stood for and any Pan-Africanist should be reeling from the effects of recurrent melancholy.
A country where over 100,000 people displaced by floods and over 200 dead and and in the middle of a coronavirus scourge that has upended the world; Kenya's youngest president ever 'Kamwana' convenes a political meeting to deliberate on 2022 politics.
With the tranquillity enjoyed at such an ungodly hour, Mwalimu who would have been a centenarian in 2022, would have understood if you climbed high on Mt. Kilimanjaro and chanted: HERI KUWA MBWA ULAYA KULIKO KUWA MWANA WA TAIFA.
Source: 'Saint' Nyerere, Please Pray For Us
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In his address during the launch of the popular Arusha Declaration on February 5, 1967, then Tanzanian President Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere laid the footprint for the onslaught on the pernicious colonial masters.
Mwalimu outlined the principles of Ujamaa which he called African Socialism; principles that were to guide the economy of the newly independent nation rooted in the concept of self-reliance.
He used the podium to deconstruct the popular belief that no money no development and instead championed the need for collective effort in attaining national goals while restoring the value of the salary. That was in 1967.
Fast forward 2020 and in a country called Kenya, the subtle nature of the political class is a direct contrast of what Mwalimu stood for and any Pan-Africanist should be reeling from the effects of recurrent melancholy.
A country where over 100,000 people displaced by floods and over 200 dead and and in the middle of a coronavirus scourge that has upended the world; Kenya's youngest president ever 'Kamwana' convenes a political meeting to deliberate on 2022 politics.
With the tranquillity enjoyed at such an ungodly hour, Mwalimu who would have been a centenarian in 2022, would have understood if you climbed high on Mt. Kilimanjaro and chanted: HERI KUWA MBWA ULAYA KULIKO KUWA MWANA WA TAIFA.
Source: 'Saint' Nyerere, Please Pray For Us
