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...Salaam, which means "haven of peace" in Arabic, was a haven of tumultuous confusion last week during celebrations marking uhuru (freedom). A British-administered United Nations trusteeship for 15 years, Tanganyika became an independent nation...
Hundreds of thousands of colored light bulbs were strung all over the capital, and the streets were illuminated by graceful arches in the shape of giraffes, Tanganyika's national symbol. At the uhuru ceremonies in the National Stadium, massed bands serenaded Prime Minister Julius Nyerere, Great Britain's Prince Philip, and dignitaries from 65 nations...
...minute before midnight, the stadium was plunged into darkness, the Union Jack was lowered, and up the flagpole was hoisted Tanganyika's new flag-green for the land, black for the people, and gold for its mineral wealth. At the stroke of midnight, the lights went on, and over the loudspeaker came the strains of the new national anthem, Mungu Ibariki [God Bless] Tanganyika...
Unlike other African nationalists, Julius Nyerere, 38, educated at Edinburgh University, is a moderate who has kept Tanganyika an island of peace surrounded on all sides by strife and violence, notably the war in the neighboring Congo (see map, p. 21). Firmly in control of the Tanganyika African National Union, which holds 70 of the 71 seats in the new National Assembly, Nyerere believes that multiracialism is a sound policy for the emerging African states, has kept as his closest advisers former Governor Sir Richard Turnbull, who is now Governor General, and Finance Minister Sir Ernest Vasey. "Both the color...
While most young African nations are critically short of native-born lawyers-newly independent Tanganyika has two, both of whom attended the conference-the meeting in Lagos showed them to be as eager to extend the rule of law as their counterparts anywhere in the world. Said Nigeria's Chief Justice Sir Adetokunbo Ademola: "This is a world conference, not a conference of Western powers. The world is interested in peace, and this is the only way to ensure...