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Julius Nyerere, the elder statesman of post-colonial Africa, dies, aged 77
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THE TANZANIAN nation was in shock yesterday following the death of
the country's founder Julius Nyerere, one of Africa's elder
statesmen.
At exactly noon yesterday, a sombre President Benjamin Mkapa went
on national television to announce - his voice cracking with emotion -
that the man known to all as "Mwalimu" (teacher) had finally
succumbed to leukaemia at the age of 77.
Nyerere, the father of African socialism who led his country to
independence from Britain in 1961, had been in a London hospital in
critical condition since 9 September.
"Today, I have the sad duty to announce that ...
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