Julius Nyerere giving a speech prior to Tanganyikan Independence | July 1960

July 1960.
Brief footage of Julius Nyerere giving a speech before a mass meeting.
The clip is derived from the end of an episode of ITN's Roving Reporter series,
Source: Getty Images.

[@raymondmainamugure204]

One of the few African leaders who actually led wirh integrity. Did not die a billionaire like everyone else on the continent. He stayed true.

[@Mapenzi2635]

You are right. That is because he was an idiosyncratic philosopher. He rejected racial suprimacy. He accepted democracy not in the way western countries understood it (which is tyranny), but modified Aristotle's view by rejecting slavery.

[@anthonygikuri]

Born a peasant son died a peasant son. Africa must learn from this statesman.

[@wilfredmmbando689]

😊

[@mugabezion5763]

How that small tiny Britain manage to colonise many countries that were far bigger than it, still beats me.

[@ngang1957]

guns

[@Godlike-87]

Guns, rockets, element of surprise.

[@mugabezion5763]

@@Godlike-87 the brits are brutes

[@twahirabasi9765]

Brains and lion hearts

[@georgeodhiambo598]

Those countries didn't exist as countries. They were tiny divided and ever quarrelling tribe-nations that were easy targets for British conquest. Secondly Britain was at the zenith if its power. It was gradually growing into an empire having benefitted immensely from slavery and industrial revolution.

[@AbdallaMwagora-sm1rj]

Tanganyika independence become by Muslim force.

[@jamescarney4394]

Guns murder