The peace and stability of Tanzania is largely credited to its founding president, Julius Nyerere who was the country’s leader until retiring voluntarily in 1985. Even though his socialist economic experiment is largely acknowledged to have been a failure, his upstanding moral principles, genuine humility and integrity guided the nation in a direction that makes it find itself where it is.

Despite its obvious poverty, Tanzania remains far more influential in the continent than its economic muscle would allow. Retired.

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