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...preserving the socialist system. I think we should uphold two things. First, public ownership should always play the dominant role in our economy. Second, we should try to avoid polarization [of rich and poor] and always try to keep to the road of prosperity. Our policy of opening to the outside world, and the new approach introduced at home to stimulate the economy and to take more flexible measures, will not lead to polarization. As long as public ownership plays a dominant role in our country, I think the polarization can be avoided. There will be differences when the different...
...class at a British-run school and became the first person in the colony to attend university abroad, in Edinburgh, where, says a long-time observer of Tanzanian affairs, "he was captured by the ideology of the British Labor Party at the time. He is deeply involved in Fabian socialist principles, which he believed he could graft onto the fabric of Tanzanian village life." A lifelong Roman Catholic, Nyerere was also influenced by the social activism of Africa's Maryknoll missionaries...
When the British colony gained independence in 1961, Nyerere became Prime Minister and soon set the new nation on a socialist course. In 1967 his Arusha Declaration established ujamaa, the extended family system under which some 13 million peasants were by 1976 resettled, often forcibly, into 8,000 cooperative villages. All crops were to be bought and distributed by the government. At the same time, the country's major industries were to be nationalized and run by state-owned companies...
...centralized socialist state, Tanzania has bolstered democratic institutions to a surprising extent. The country's constitution was amended last year to include, for the first time, a bill of rights guaranteeing fundamental freedoms, to strengthen the 244-seat Parliament and to provide for the direct election of more of its members. The President can still order preventive detention for as long as six months, but the names of those detained must now be published, and the legality of detentions can be challenged in the courts, which are refreshingly independent...
...diplomats in Dar es Salaam as a pragmatic politician who has helped maintain Zanzibar's tenuous link to the mainland at a time when Tanzania's pervasive economic problems have caused many Zanzibarians to question the value of that union. A Muslim, Mwinyi is expected to continue Nyerere's socialist economic policies, despite their mixed results. As for Nyerere, he will retain the important post of party chairman for at least the next two years. He plans to travel extensively throughout Tanzania in an effort to restore the peasants' somewhat diminished faith in the party and its programs...