BALOZI WETU UINGEREZA ANAWATANGAZIA WANANCHI WOTE KUHUDHURIA MKUTANO WA MWALIMU NYERERE SOMA HAPA LIVE!!

Peter A. Kallaghe

 Silvertown, United Kingdom ·

You are warmly invited to the global launch of Nyerere: The early years (by Dr Thomas Molony, University of Edinburgh).


Date: 17:30, 20th June 2014.
Venue: New Africa Hotel, Dar es Salaam.

Guest of Honour: Joseph Sinde Warioba (Chair of the Constitutional Review Commission; Prime Minister and Vice President under Julius Nyerere). The author will present on Nyerere: The early years (published on 19th June), and is happy to take questions from the floor. Julius Kambarage Nyerere was a man whose political life was uniquely and inextricably bound into the history of the nation he created. Yet though Baba wa Taifa, there is still no adequate biography of 'the Father of the Nation'. This book presents the first truly rounded portrait of Nyerere's early life, from his birth in 1922 until his graduation from Edinburgh in 1952, helping us to see his later political achievements in a new light. Drawing on interviews with his contemporaries, as well as archival sources (including his letters as a student and files that the colonial authorities kept on him), this revelatory and engaging account allows us to see Nyerere afresh. It also brings a new perspective on how the scholarship that Nyerere engaged with as a young man in Scotland influenced his ideas of the uhuru movement against colonial rule and, later, the ujamaa policy of African socialism that so defined his leadership of an independent Tanzania.

"An authoritative account of Nyerere’s early career that simply has no rival." (Dr James Brennan, University of Illinois) Reduced-price copies will be on sale at the launch - but numbers are limited. The venue is large, so there may be seats on the day for others who you may want to forward this email to.
RSVP to info@nyererefoundation.org.
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** Nyerere: The early years **
(Dr) Thomas Molony
Lecturer in African Studies, Centre of African Studies
Graduate School of Social and Political Science,
The University of Edinburgh,
Chrystal Macmillan Building,
15A George Square,
Edinburgh,
UK