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...emerging leaders of Africa are as pretentious as Ghana's Nkrumah or as meddlesome as Egypt's Nasser. Across the continent from Casablanca, Tanganyika's Chief Minister Julius Nyerere sat in his sun-splashed and flyspecked capital of Dar es Salaam and contentedly contemplated his steady progress toward the day when Britain's East African possessions-his own mandated Tanganyika, plus Uganda and Kenya to the north and the offshore islands of Zanzibar-will be able to form a self-governing, independent Federation of East Africa...
...polygamist chief, Nyerere attended Uganda's Makarere College, where he was baptized a Roman Catholic. Later he took a master's in history and economics from Edinburgh University, returned to the bush to teach in a mission school. By his fiery oratory, he soon welded Tanganyika's 113 politically inarticulate tribes into the monolithic Tanganyika African National Union party. Unlike the Mau Mau in adjoining Kenya, Nyerere has modified his racist stand, now insists: "The struggle against colonialism must not be confused with racialism. Both the color of a man's skin and his country...
Plans such as the Peace Corps and the PBH Project Tanganyika are "a tremendous thing," enthused Nkosi, "a tangible contribution by which African youth can come into contact with people who are educated and who can train them...
...Project, which will send 20 University students to Tanganyika in June to teach and do social work, has already had a fine response among students here. About 30 have expressed interest in participating. Goldmark noted...
Applications for participation in Phillips Brooke House "Project Tanganyika" have been drafted and will be available at PBH at the end of January, Peter Goldmark '62, director of the Project, stated yesterday...