THE Republic of Tanganyika is rarely in the news, because it is peaceful. That is a remarkable news item in itself. Tanganyika is four times the size of Great Britain, all of England, Wales, Scotland, ...

Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino. —Julius Nyerere (1961) The aspirations that accompanied African independence ...

Tanganyika secured independence in 1961 from the British. Zanzibar, an archipelago off the mainland consisting of two large islands and many small ones, was granted formal independence two years later ...

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No banners were flying, no mobs were shouting as Tanganyika’s 9,000,000 blacks got self-government last week. Instead, quiet, sensible Prime Minister Julius Nyerere decreed that his people should stay ...