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Editorial: Nyerere; a great leader, teacher
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Editorial: Nyerere; a great leader, teacher
Wisdom and education were the hallmarks of the great African leader who died and was buried Oct. 25.
Julius Nyerere--a veteran African statesman, champion of Third World causes, the architect of African socialism and the first president of the East Africa nation of Tanzania--was a stickler for education and was known throughout Africa as a "Mwalimu," the Swahili word for teacher.
In his 1968 book, "Ujamaa," or togetherness, Nyerere said, "The purpose of education is to transmit, from one generation to the next, the accumulated wisdom and knowledge ...
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