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Julius Nyerere

First President of Tanzania
Date of Birth: 13.04.1922
Country: Tanzania

Content:
  1. Early Life and Education
  2. Higher Education and Activism
  3. Return to Tanganyika
  4. Independence and Premiership
  5. Presidency
  6. Foreign Policy
  7. Retirement and Final Years

Early Life and Education

Julius Nyerere was born in March 1922, near Butiama, on the eastern shore of Lake Victoria.

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His father, a junior chief of the Zanaki tribe, had 22 wives and 26 children. Nyerere was the first son of his father's fourth wife.

At the age of 12, Nyerere entered a Catholic mission school, graduating with honors. He continued his education at the only secondary school in Tanganyika.

Higher Education and Activism

From 1943 to 1945, Nyerere attended Makerere University College in Uganda.

He then taught for two years at a Catholic school in Tabora. In 1949, he was sent to Scotland, where he earned a Master's degree from the University of Edinburgh.

Return to Tanganyika

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