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Nyerere’s Postcolonial Approach to Education

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Julius Nyerere has had many detractors. He is, however, one of Africa’s best known and most revered post-colonial figures. A devout Catholic, son of a village chief in Butiama (Northern Tanzania) and a former school teacher in a Catholic school, Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1922-1999) had an eventful life which saw him lead Tanganyika to independence in 1961, become its President and eventually become the first President of Tanzania following the unification of Tanganyika and Zanzibar in 1964

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Mayo, P. (2012). Nyerere’s Postcolonial Approach to Education. In: Abdi, A.A. (eds) Decolonizing Philosophies of Education. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-687-8_4

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