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The East African Thursday May 20 2021 Advertisement Tanzania’s founding president Julius Kambarage Nyerere peacefully passing over the presidency to his hand-picked successor Ali Hassan Mwinyi was a rarity in Africa at that time, it also marked the start of the private sector’s involvement in the country’s development agenda. It saw former president Mwinyi earn the nickname Mzee wa Rukhsa, which in Kiswahili means the elder who permitted almost everything. Mzee Mwinyi practically reversed all Nyerere’s Ujamaa na Kujitegemea, the socialist-inspired policies that dominated Tanzania’s ...

New Systems – A Reader The recent Corona pandemic has made the question of economic, social and ecological transformation ever more urgent. Truly addressing the problems of the 21st century requires going beyond small tweaks and modest reforms to business as usual – it requires „changing the system“. An illuminative and provocative book has appeared on the topic – a first assessment by Professor Udo E. Simonis. James Gustave („Gus“) Speth, one of the editors of this new book, became world-renowned by several of his functions: as founder of the World R...

Tanzanian politician and writer Julius Nyerere  19 January 2021 at 22:09 |  1443 views Julius Kambarage Nyerere (Swahili pronunciation: [ˈdʒuːlius kɑmˈbɑɾɑgɑ ɲɛˈɾɛɾɛ]( 13 April 1922 – 14 October 1999) was a Tanzanian anti-colonial activist, politician, and political theorist. He governed Tanganyika as Prime Minister from 1961 to 1962 and then as President from 1963 to 1964, after which he led its successor state, Tanzania, as President from 1964 to 1985. A founding member of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) party—wh...

In the face of insurmountable challenges such as resource scarcity, Rauf Aregbesola, Minister of Interior persists in the movement to reform correctional facilities in Nigeria by reducing populations and promoting prisoners’ rights. Indeed, a mindset of reform and rights is sweeping Nigeria correctional services. Rauf Aregbesola has laid emphasis on 1996 and 2002 the Kampala Declaration on Prison Conditions in Africa and the Ouagadougou Declaration on Accelerating Penal and Prison Reform in Africa were both adopted respectively. Both instruments strive to improve the conditions of African p...