Tanzania's first president, Julius Nyerere also was one of the founding members of the Non-Aligned Movement, and, during the Cold War era, Tanzania played an important role in regional and international organizations, such as the Non-Aligned Movement, the front-line states, the G-77, and the Organisation of African Unity ( OAU ) ( now the African Union ).

Tanzania's founding leader, President Julius Kambarage Nyerere and Tanzania's former Prime Minister,

However, according to the BBC, " while he united his nation and made major advances in the fields of health and education ," Julius Nyerere's African socialist " Ujamaa " collectives " proved disastrous for Tanzania's economy ".

Tanzania's first president, Julius Nyerere, had complete admiration for the late Shaaban Robert, and greatly valued and promoted his intellectual work.

He attributes this view to African philosopher Ifeanyi Menkiti, as well as socialist political figures like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Senegal's Léopold Senghor, and Tanzania's Julius Nyerere.

For this reason, the islands, together with Tanzania's Mafia Island, are sometimes called the Spice Islands ( a term also associated with the Maluku Islands in Indonesia ).

Zanzibar's clove industry has been crippled by a fast-moving global market, international competition, and a hangover from Tanzania's failed experiment with socialism in the 1960s and 1970s, when the government controlled clove prices and exports.

Public diplomacy is purposefully integrated into the work of every agency and section, linking American contributions to Tanzania's development with our policy objectives .” Ambassador Green was active in international matters for many years.

ETISALAT bought 65 % of Zantel Tanzania's shares and are joint owners with The government of Zanzibar ( 18 %) and Meeco International of Tanzania ( 17 %).

In the national elections for Tanzania's presidency and National Assembly, held on 14 December 2005, Foreign Minister and CCM candidate Jakaya Kikwete won with 80. 28 % of the vote.

Tabora is the capital city of Tanzania's Tabora Region with a population of 127, 880 ( 2002 census ).

This stretch of coast in Tanzania's capital Dar es Salaam serves as a public waste dump.

However, in 1973 provisions were made to relocate the capital to Dodoma, a more centrally located city in Tanzania's interior.

The relocation process has not yet been completed, and Dar es Salaam remains Tanzania's primary city.

One of Tanzania's most important archeological sites is Engaruka in the Great Rift Valley which includes an irrigation and cultivation system.

From the late 1970s, Tanzania's economy took a turn for the worse.

From the mid 1980s Tanzania's GDP per capita has grown and poverty has been reduced.

The government of Tanzania through its department of tourism has embarked on a campaign to promote the Kalambo water falls in the southwestern region of Rukwa as one of Tanzania's main tourist destinations.

Tanzania's population consists of approximately 62 % Christians, 35 % Muslims, and 3 % followers of indigenous religions.

One of Tanzania's most important archeological sites is Engaruka in the Great Rift Valley which includes an irrigation and cultivation system.

And the language that was spoken in them, Swahili ( now Tanzania's national language ), is a member of the Bantu language family that spread from the northern Kenya coast well before significant Arab presence was felt in the region.

From c. 1200 to 1500 CE, the town of Kilwa, on Tanzania's southern coast, was perhaps the wealthiest and most powerful of these towns, presiding over what some scholars consider the " golden age " of Swahili civilization.

In 2004, the undersea earthquake on the other side of the Indian Ocean caused tsunamis along Tanzania's coastline in which 11 people were killed.

The eastern coast contains Tanzania's largest city and former capital, Dar es Salaam.

Competition in Tanzania's telecommunication sector is expected to get stiffer after the country's regulatory authority licensed four more cellular phone service providers to bring the number to ten.

Tanzania's road network, is of limited quality and not many roads are tarmacked.

Tanzania's system includes of gauge, or narrow gauge, and of gauge track.

As of 2008, Tanzania's merchant fleet consisted of 9 Tanzanian-flagged vessels and 1 registered in Honduras.

The small number of ships may be attributed to Tanzania's few exports, the relative insufficiency of its coast guard and naval forces, and Tanzania's single major port facility in Dar es Salaam.

The following year, she married Derek Bryceson ( a member of Tanzania's parliament and the director of that country's national parks ); he died of cancer in October 1980.

Mr. Brown, well-known, English-born inventor, prior to founding VecTrol was at various times section leader in radio research at Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd. ; ;

He was a founding member and the de facto early leader of the influential Bourbaki group.

On the basis of these traditions, the churches in question often claim to have inherited specific authority, doctrines and / or practices on the authority of their founding apostle ( s ), which is understood to be continued by the bishops of the see ( seat ) or throne of the church that each founded and whose original leader he was.

Michael Collins ( Irish leader ) | Michael Collins, founding father of the pro-Treaty movement that would become Fine Gael.

After the Ostrogoths successfully revolted against the Huns at the Battle of Nedao in 454, their leader Theodoric the Great settled his people in Italy, founding a Kingdom which eventually gained control of the whole peninsula.

For twenty-two years, from its founding in 1944 to his retirement in 1966, the Liberal Party had had only one leader, Robert Menzies.

The program was a dramatic reversal of the traditional secularism of Pakistan's founding Muslim League and its leader Mohammad Ali Jinnah, but unlike neighboring Iran, Zia-ul-Haq's policies were intended to " avoid revolutionary excess ", and not to strain relations with his American and Persian Gulf state allies.

A leader in the Enlightenment, Jefferson was a polymath who spoke five languages and was deeply interested in science, invention, architecture, religion and philosophy, interests that led him to the founding of the University of Virginia after his presidency.

From ITRI's first 3-inch wafer fabrication plant built in 1977 and the founding of UMC in 1980, the industry has developed into a world leader with 40 fabs in operation by 2002.

Bo Hi Pak, the chief aide of church founder and leader Sun Myung Moon, was the founding president and the founding chairman of the board.

The UAP was absorbed into the new Liberal Party of Australia ( with Menzies as leader ) at the founding of the latter organisation on 31 August 1945.

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