Mark Mwandosya

Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere: 19 Years After An Address by Mark Mwandosya to the University of Comoro, on the Commemoration of the 19th Anniversary of the passing away of Mwalimu Nyerere. Moroni, Comoro, 26 October 2018. Introduction As we grew up in the African suburbs of the Southern Highlands Provincial Headquarters of Mbeya, in the United Nations Protectorate of Tanganyika, age notwithstanding, we were aware something somewhere was wrong. Mbeya then resembled a typical racially segregated town in Southern Africa, and specifically apartheid South Africa. For, the posh suburb of the town, referred to as Uzunguni, was reserved for whites only, mainly members of the British colonial administration. The commercial centre was reserved for Asians, and appropriately referred to as Uhindini. After six o’clock in the evening, Africans were not allowed to be seen in Uzunguni ...