Poverty alleviation and the revolutionary-socialist imperative: learning from Nyerere's Tanzania

From: International Journal | Date: April 1, 2002| Author: Saul, John S | Copyright information

Professor of Political and Social Science, York University, Toronto. This article draws on personal experience during seven years of teaching in and writing about Tanzania (in the 1960s and early 1970s), a familiarity with more recent scholarship on the country, and reflections evoked by my participation in a memorial workshop on Nyerere at Queen's University, Kingston, in February, 2000. The paper I presented there, 'Julius Nyerere: the theory and practice of (un)democratic socialism in Afri...

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