#tanganyika

[postcard-from-the-past]

Belgian Lake steamer SS Baron Dhanis on the Lake Tanganyika

Belgian vintage postcard

[diemelusine]

Firefight between Askari soldiers under colonial rule and the local population in German East Africa (1896) by Karl Paul Themistokles von Eckenbrecher. Private collection.

[onlytiktoks]

[57amp3r]

Tanganyika, 1922

[stars-and-soda]

For everyone saying she just inherented all the colonies, even if she did, she's still a colonizer, but literally just looking at her wikipedia page would tell that it isn't true:

As you can see anything after 1952 was brought in under her rule, 25 on this list alone.

[donpasquella]

Languages

I never became fluent in any foreign language although I was attracted to many.

I did manage to learn a few words of Swahili during a time when I thought about moving to Tanganyika, back when there was still a country called Tanganyika.

Jambo means hello Kisu means knife Nzuri means good

But how often can you use good knife in everyday conversation ?

Jambo Mr. bus driver, nzuri kisu!

It’s probably just as well that I never made it to Tanganyika, especially since there is no longer a Tanganyika.

[dilettantereviews]

We might hate exploitive mommy bloggers and family youtubers and reality shows for what they do to kids, but at least none of them were an 8 year old rapper getting herself involved in the Roxanne wars in the pre-internet era.

[dailyhistoryposts]

Julius Nyerere

An activist, educator, and politician from Tanzania, Julia Kyerere (1922-1999) is sometimes called the "Father of the Nation". He promoted socialism, anti-colonialism, and stability in Africa.

Born in Mwitongo, Tanganyika (the country the would later become Tanzania), to the king of the Zanaki people, one of the smallest of the 120 tribes in what was at the time a British colony. He received an education both in Africa and in Edinburgh, pursuing a teaching career and beginning to develop his political philosophy.

He argued that capitalism was alien to Africa and that Africa could better be served by its natural "African socialism". He was elected president of the Tanganyika African Association (later the Tanganyika African National Union; TANU) in 1953 and became the de facto head of the independence movement.

Ideologically, Nyerere emulated the non-violent methods of Gandhi and said that while the country should be led but indigenous Africans, it would not eject the European and Asian minorities that lived there--Nyerere dreamt of a society that was both proudly African and multicultural.

In 1958, he led the TANU's participation in a series of elections, getting both indigenous Africans and European and Asian sympathies elected, creating a legislative council dominated by the party.

With this political power, TANU began a peaceful transition to independence, a democratic African government focused on African solidarity, dismantling the lingering effects of colonialism, and racial justice.

There is more to say about his life--the policies he put forward, his impacts, the Arusha Declaration, his controversial methods for maintaining power. But his creation of the United Republic of Tanzania--a strong and independent country that remained stable when its neighbors were weak--will always make him one of the most noteworthy men in recent history.