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I just noticed these external links:
Process initiated to declare Tanzania's founding president a saint
Is Nyerere's process to sainthood timely?
Do you think that Nyerere's Catholicism is worthy of sainthood? Please explain why or why not. Many thanks. Diamantina 12:28, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
I removed: "Unfortunately, many believe that his socialist policies were directly responsible for the Hutu uprisings against the Tutsi in Rwanda and Burundi and played the major role in the ongoing sectarian genocides in that region." This had already been marked as "citation needed" for a while before I got to it, and is pretty inflammatory, so I removed it (especially since I had never heard this before, and given that Nyerere did not rule over either Rwanda or Burundi, the statement isn't immediately self-evident). If someone has a source for this, it would make for a very interesting addition to the article, though. Nicolasdz 09:44, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
How can one claim that Nyerere was "the first Tanzanian to study at a British university", when Tanzania did not exist at this time? Perhaps he was the first Tanganyikan? Either way, can someone please provide a source, because as it stands now, the claim is highly irrational. -- webkid ( talk) 05:28, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Articmike ( talk) 01:49, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
This article is terribly biased and needs to be rewritten. There's not a single word in this article about the process by which the article alleges the subject was "elected" president of the new Tanzania, then seemingly never again stood for election, after which he served more than 20 years. The article as written states that the subject admitted in 1976 that he had to junk his economic plan and that the country needed a new economic system, then "willingly" announced he would step down after an election -- to be held in 1985! Nine years after admitting defeat! There may be sources this author can cite to identify this politician as a benevolent dictator, or to argue that this dictator was not a bloody dictator, but whether these assertions could be possibly true is not even raised in this article. It is clear that the man was a dictator. Did the voters of 1964 know they were electing a president-for-life? If there are sources the author can cite that might establish that this dictator acted for the good of his country, or denied his people freedom and democracy for any good reason, the author chose not to cite such sources in the article. The author merely wrote a highly biased article. Articmike ( talk) 01:47, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
I would also add that the article fails to mention the forced relocation of 2/3 of the population to the collective villages. This was a key part of his ujaama policy.
Hal 10000.0 ( talk) 12:38, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
This article fails any test for subjectivity there is. This is little more than a propaganda puff piece. 98.247.32.199 ( talk) 18:35, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
I'm moving the following list to here from the article for now. f any of this is missing, it needs to be prose, and it seemed a bit randomly placed.
-- Beloved Freak 10:06, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
I think this article needs a re-rating. It is an important person for Tanzania and deserves to reach GA status. Would appreciate any advice by anyone to help attain that status. Sputink ( talk) 23:45, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
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'the Swahili word for socialism comes from the word Jamaa — which literally means "familyhood" and the "extended family"'
I am not good enough in Kiswahili or Arabic to be certain, but I suspect that Kiswahili "jamaa" comes from Arabic jamea (جمع) meaning collection, collecting, gathering, combination. Maybe somebody familiar with the etymology of Kiswahili can check this. Mregelsberger ( talk) 10:27, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
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I feel the lead of this article (I refuse to write "lede", don't @ me unless you are wearing a fedora with a big "press" sign stuck under the band) needs some work per WP:LEADFOLLOWSBODY. I started the work but was reverted. I will try again now, but explain what is the what here. 1: "anti-colonial activist" - this seems to me to be a presentist term. I read 4 of his obituaries NYT, Guardian, Irish times, and the Washington Post, none of which referred to him as an activist once. Nor does this site (not sure how legit it is, though). JuliusNyerere.org. I'll admit that none of those obituaries were from African sources, and I know next to nothing about African and Tanzanian politics. So I could be wrong. Maybe all the WP:RS are currently referring to Nyerere as an anti-colonialist activist. We just need to see those sources. But again per WP:LEADFOLLOWSBODY, the word "activist" does not occur in the body except to refer to Coretta Scott King. King is referred to as an activist on her page, but Gandhi is not on his page. My preference would be to keep the "Political Activism" heading for the subsection, but not prioritize "activist" in the lead. He was a founding father, statesman, founder of TANU, African Socialist and President more than he was a mere activist. This is what I'm getting from the current sources. 2: Tanzania or Tanganyika. Tanzania is an afterthought in the lead. All of the sources I've read start with referring to him as "founding father of Tanzania" or at least mention him as president of Tanzania right off the bat. For some reason the current version of the lead prioritizes him being prime minister and then president of Tanganyika (all of which lasted for four years) over him being the first and only president of Tanzania for 21 years. Oh, also Tanzania is described as Tanganyika's "successor state". This is odd and stilted verbiage. This amounts to a sort of Tanganyika bias that I don't understand, and certainly doesn't reflect the bulk of Nyerere's life which was in service of Tanzania as a whole. 3:The page is about Nyerere not TANU, so the lead should not be so persnickety about the history of TANU. It can have its own page. To burn up pixels in Nyerere's lead paragraph to clarify the current state of TANU, while probably very important to a lot of people, is WP:UNDUE. Cheers. DolyaIskrina ( talk) 01:45, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
"A founding member of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) party—which in 1977 became the Chama Cha Mapinduzi party—he chaired it until 1990."
Couple of observations about the images in the article. Given what is available on Commons alone, the absence of images related to Nyerere's Third Worldism and Pan-Africanism appears to be a notable absence. At present we have five photos from three visits to the Netherlands (including the somewhat unflattering image in the infobox), two photos with US Presidents, five images of buildings, every image of Nyerere meeting with people is with people from the First World. I'd suggest the images with Zhou Enlai and Hastings Banda be included. There's also a few images from the NAM meetings which might be public domain which I will post here if they are. Regards, -- Goldsztajn ( talk) 04:14, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
Should be added somewhere, since he is officially on the road to sainthood in the Catholic Church. natemup ( talk) 10:13, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
I see many leaders with Nyerere's stature have an Awards and Honors section, however, I did not see it nor I could not find any separate list. I think due to the size of the article, it probably makes sense to make a separate article. Wanted to make sure there was no particular reason for this omission before I made a separate article. Sputink ( talk) 15:12, 25 December 2022 (UTC)