Butiama The Abandoned Place
Musoma and Tabora: Kambarage, Spirit of the Rain
Makerere: Becoming Julius
Return to Tabora: African Associations
Scotland: Great Conceptions
Edinburgh and Uhuru: Politics, Philosophy and Economics
Edinburgh and Ujamaa: History and Anthropology
London and Pugu: Teaching and Politics
The Early Years: Legacy and Reappraisal
Appendix: Select Biographies
Offers a detailed, entertaining account of the life and ideas of
one of Africa's greatest statesmen that reaches far earlier than
this, and makes a valuable contribution to Africa's political
history as a result.
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A major contribution to the field.
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A well-researched, scholarly, yet highly-readable, work about one
of the most remarkable, but least understood, African leaders of
the last century. How welcome it is.... A wonderful book and one
that should be on the shelves of universities and secondary schools
not only in Africa but in those countries in the Commonwealth where
African studies are underway.. . This is a book that any serious
student of Africa in the 20th century should read in order to
better understand the way that the massive influence of the Roman
Catholic Church had on the life of Julius Nyerere.
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It is an effective chronicle of a young man who excelled in school,
took Roman Catholic missionary instruction, received a degree from
Makerere College in Uganda, received another undergraduate degree
from the University of Edinburgh, and returned home to teach
secondary school and help create an independent republic.
Recommended.
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Affords one insights into what could have formed, and informed,
Nyerere's later political agenda and action... The value of this
book is that it suggests a multiplicity of influences, from village
life in a very traditional setting to the influence of Catholicism
and to the best education the West could offer... Dr Thomas Molony
helps us to broaden and deepen our knowledge. The East African
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