Really! with our poverty we managed to establish the rule of the majority in countries like South Africa, Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Seychelles, Uganda, Guenee Bissau, cape varde. Nearly all sub-sahara african presidents were once Tanzanian citizens, Mandela, Mbeki, Zuma, Kagame, Museven, Nkurunzinza, Mugabe, Samora Machel, Joachim Chisano, Armando Guebuza and Felipe Nyusi, Sam Nujoma, Hifikepunye Pohamba, Agustino Netto, Dos Santos, Kabila baba, Kabila mtoto, president mtarajiwa Uganda Kainerugaba Muhoozi born in TZ, trained in TZ, John Garang of Sudan and including your Raila Odinga, Raira Odinga flew to Europe as a Tanzanian. #Respect! You are talking about a country with an army that liberated the entire southern of Africa and beyond. An army that trained all liberation movements, fought throughout the cold-cold war and won wars and countless of covert operations with distinctions. Kajeshi kenu ndio kwanza kako Somali first outing, iliwachukua zaidi ya miaka miwili kuchukua mji mmoja tu KISMAYU toka kwa wanamgambo wa Al Shabab, a ragtag force that cant even afford dissent shoes.
You Tanzanians need to get your facts right! Tz did indeed commit itself to ending imperialism and fascist regimes in the continent by supporting the various resistance movements that were involved in the struggle. Granted.
However, it is a fallacy the claim there that Tz , as u have put it "established the rule of the majority" in those oppressed countries like SA, Angola, Mozambique, Namibia and the former Rhodesia. That is utter drivel!
There is no way a poverty-stricken country whose army was largely dependent on the rather inferior, second-hand weapons from China could possibly take on the much well organized and technologically advanced armies of Angola, SA or Rhodesia (and SA was a nuclear power to boot).
Apparently, the racist regimes in SA, Angola, Mozambique and Rhodesia had grown impervious to the criticisms coming from the African quarters, and they were in fact not taking the threats by the African states (like Tanzania) using force against them seriously, recognizing their military weakness.
A war between Tanzania and Rhodesia in the 60s 0r 70s would have been a walkaway success for the latter. I doubt even a combined force of ( I reckon) ten African states could have taken on Rhodesia then, with any chance of success.
The apartheid SA on the other hand could probably have utterly obliterated more than twice that number, given that it was very advanced militarily and also a nuclear power-state.
There was therefore nothing much Tanzania could do to dent those reviled regimes except to offer hiding places for the rebels, whose activities by the way were proving ineffective against those regimes.
Whatever led to the downfall of those regimes had little to do with the pressures from within Africa, i.e the resistance movements of the Nyereres and Kaundas and Nkrumahs as the pressures from abroad. It was the factors outside of Africa that led to the crumbling of those powerful but reviled regimes.
Read how how the events within Portugal in the 70s led to its losing its territories overseas. Read how the western pressure, led by America and Britain precipitated the downfall of the apartheid in SA; this after the Africans had nearly lost all hopes of ever eradicating them from SA.
But what were the successes of Tanzania in Uganda during the the war to topple Idi Amin? Would they have succeed had the various military units within the Ugandan army united; had Kenya not confiscated the indispensable war equipment such as the weapons from Russia, the spare-parts and the petrol to fuel the war vehicles, all which Uganda had paid for at the port of Mombasa? And what about that rarely spoken about blunder by Nyerere to forcefully re-install his ally Obote in power despite the latter's widespread unpopularity among most Ugandans?
His supporting of Obote not to let Ugandans exercise their free judgement in appointing their leaders led to a blood-bath that was far worse than during Amin's time which Nyerere had committed himself to end.