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Julius Nyerere Imperialism Summary

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How Julius Nyerere’s analysis about colonialism, imperialism, and independence movements can be relevant to protesters in Africa challenging despotic regimes. Julius Nyerere is regarded as one of the most influential African leaders to have served the African continent and a socialist pan Africanist who have great visions for his country, Tanzania, and then Tanganyika. to understand the origins and the context of the philosophy of education of Nyerere, it should be briefly trace his career of teacher and politician. Julius Nyerere was born in April 1922 to Butiama, to the north of the United Republic of Tanzania. He is the son of a chief zanaki. Educated by Catholic missionaries, he is baptized at 20 years. After having received a pedagogical …show more content…

The socialism emphasized the idea of equality of opportunity and on the need to reduce the social injustice. As the said Nyerere: "The objective of socialism in the United Republic of Tanzania is to build a society in which all members enjoy the same rights and the same opportunities; where all can live in peace with their neighbors without imposing the injustice, without be exploited nor exploit others; where everyone sees its material well-being gradually increase before a single does not live in the Luxury" (Nyerere, 1968E, p. 340). In the context of poverty and under-development then Who was it of the United Republic of Tanzania, the Arusha Declaration stressed the need to mobilize the human resources in the service of a self-sustaining development instead of relying only on the financial or material resources: "The development of a country is operated through the man and not thanks to the money. The money, and the wealth that it represents, is not the starting point for the development, it is the result". (Nyerere, 1968a, p. 243). For Nyerere, the development depended on three factors: the earth, sound policies and

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