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Julius Nyerere is in some ways an improbable haba wa taifa (father of a nation). A scholarly and somehow puckishly Gandhian man, he led Tanganyika to remarkably peaceful independence from Britain in 1961 and then presided over its union with the island of Zanzibar in 1964, when the two together became Tanzania...
...have followed since. As the continent was swept by a "wind of change," in Harold Macmillan's famous phrase, one former colony after another set out on its own. buoyed by unreasonably high hopes. Few captured the heady mood more eloquently than Julius Nyerere, who marked Tanganyika's independence in 1961 by sending an expedition to plant a flag and a torch atop Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak. "It will shine beyond our borders," said Nyerere, "giving hope where there was despair, love where there was hate, and dignity where before there was only humiliation...
...added a new direction to this traditional goal in 1954 with its first experiments in volunteer case-aid work in mental hospitals of metropolitan Boston and neighboring communities. Students' effectiveness paved the way for further important developments in this field both locally and nationally. With the start of Project Tanganyika in 1960, the present Volunteer Teachers for Africa, P.B.H.A. introduced still another kind of program which required preparation and training for a year's volunteer work away from the College...
...would happen if he were no longer in command. They know full well that the Congo's new-found tranquillity could disappear quickly in a moment of national crisis. Only three weeks ago, a small band of Simba rebels seized the town of Kalemin, formerly Albertville, on Lake Tanganyika. The Simbas held the town for 24 hours before they were driven back into the bush by Mobutu's army...
E.A.A. has flown a long way from the wing-and-a-prayer operation that the British organized in 1946 to open up what was then known as British East Africa. Starting with six buzzing, roaring De Havilland biplanes, E.A.A. pilots crisscrossed the area's four territories-Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar (merged into Tanzania in 1964)-bringing air service to such remote spots as Lake Victoria and Kilimanjaro. When it ventured overseas in 1957 with DC-4 flights to London and Bombay, E.A.A. happily discovered that traffic in English civil servants and schoolboys could make up the losses...