Books about and by Mwalimu Nyerere

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    South Africa and the commonwealth
    (Government Printer, 1971) Nyerere, Julius Kambarage
    At a press conference in the United States in December,1970,and as reported by the B.B.C.,Prime Minister Health said: "The Commonwealth has always existed and worked on the basis that members respect each other's interests". Tanzania certainly has no quarrel with that description of one aspect of the Commonwealth. It implies a mutual responsibility between Commonwealth members,as well as the complete national sovereignty of every individual member to purse his own country's interests . In other words,it is a recognition that, while every Commonwealth member has complete freedom to make its own decisions, each nation has also,by its membership ,accepted an obligation to try to the best of its ability to pursue its own interests and needs in such a manner that its actions will not adversely affect the basic interests of other members. This combination of complete freedom and inter-responsibility is an important and fundamental part of Commonwealth membership. There is one other. By the composition of the Commonwealth,one basic principle is implicitly accepted by every member. If we are not opposed to racialism,we have no business sitting down together in an association which consists of representatives of all the racial groups in the world.
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    Tanzania miaka kumi baada ya uhuru
    (TANU National Conference, 1971) Nyerere, Julius kambarage
    Nilipokuwa Bagamoyo mwezi Desemba,1961 nilitoa tamko ambalo watu wengi walidhani kuwa ni ndoto tupu.Nilisema kuwa kwa muda wa miaka kumi ijayo wananchi wa Tanganyika wataweza kufanya mengi zaidi ya kuendeleza nchi yetu kuliko yote yaliyofanywa na wakoloni katika itatimia itakapofika Desemba 9 Mwaka huu. Je tumeikamilisha ahadi hiyo? Au jambo muhimu zaidi,maisha ya watu wa Tanzania leo yakoje? Tumepiga hatua gani katika kuushinda “umasikini , ujinga na maradhi” nilioutamka siku ile? Na vile vile,katika kujibu maswali hayo, yafaa tujiulize matatizo gani ya maendeleo tuliyoyapta kufika mwaka 1971.
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    Tanzania ten years after independence
    (TANU National Conference, 1971) Nyerere, Julius kambarage
    In Bagamoyo in December,1961.I made what many people regarded as a rash statement.I said that in the coming ten years we, the people of Tanganyika,would do more to develop our country than the colonialist had done in the previous forty years. Those ten years will be up on 9th December this year.Have we justified my prophesy? More important, how does life feel to the people of Tanzania? What progress have we made in dealing with the "poverty, ignorance and disease" which I referred to on that day? And,following from that question, what new problems of development have we reached in 1971?This report is intended to give a general answer to those questions.It will reveal much that we can be proud of but also some things which give very little cause for satisfactions and really show only how far we have yet to go ,and how much we have to do . For over the past ten years we have made many mistakes and some of these we have hardly begun to correct.It is necessary that we face up to these matters now and realize the kind of effort which is called for .Yet in doing this we must not allow ourselves to be discouraged; for the truth is that we have done a great deal in the past ten years.We have made many changes,we have done a lot of building and we have now created a base from which our nation can advance more quickly and more freely in future.