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Julius Nyerere

1922 - 1999

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Julius Kambarage Nyerere (Swahili pronunciation: [ˈdʒulius kɑᵐbɑˈrɑɠɛ ɲɛˈrɛrɛ]; 13 April 1922 – 14 October 1999) was a Tanzanian anti-colonial activist, politician and political theorist. He governed Tanganyika as prime minister from 1961 to 1962 and then as president from 1962 to 1964, after which he led its successor state, Tanzania, as president from 1964 to 1985. He was a founding member and chair of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) party, and of its successor Chama Cha Mapinduzi, from 1954 to 1990. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julius Nyerere has received more than 2,079,066 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Julius Nyerere is the 3,051st most popular politician (down from 2,295th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Tanzania and the most popular Tanzanian Politician.

Julius Nyerere was a Tanzanian politician who was president of Tanzania from 1961 to 1985. He is most famous for his "African socialism" and his goal of Ujamaa, which is Swahili for "familyhood."

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Julius Nyerere ranks 3,051 out of 15,577. Before him are Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan, Nexhmije Hoxha, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Emperor Kaika, Sargon I, and Ladislaus II of Hungary. After him are Aspar, Arkan, Heshen, René II, Duke of Lorraine, Sigismund Báthory, and Magnus I of Sweden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Julius Nyerere ranks 48. Before him are Agostinho Neto, Nikolay Basov, Nils Liedholm, Michel Galabru, Blake Edwards, and Ahmed Sékou Touré. After him are Robert W. Holley, Ademir de Menezes, Juan Antonio Villacañas, Cornelius Castoriadis, Alberto Granado, and Francesco Rosi. Among people deceased in 1999, Julius Nyerere ranks 29. Before him are Akio Morita, Glenn T. Seaborg, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Sarah Knauss, Trygve Haavelmo, and Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani. After him are Anatoliy Solovianenko, Mary Ainsworth, Hélder Câmara, Hermine Braunsteiner, Fred Trump, and Iris Murdoch.

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In Tanzania

Among people born in Tanzania, Julius Nyerere ranks 2 out of 32. Before him are Freddie Mercury (1946). After him are Abdulrazak Gurnah (1948), Samia Suluhu Hassan (1960), Tippu Tip (1837), Benjamin Mkapa (1938), Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar (1874), Ali Hassan Mwinyi (1925), Jakaya Kikwete (1951), John Magufuli (1959), Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar (1929), and Majid bin Said of Zanzibar (1834).

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Among POLITICIANS In Tanzania

Among politicians born in Tanzania, Julius Nyerere ranks 1. After him are Samia Suluhu Hassan (1960), Tippu Tip (1837), Benjamin Mkapa (1938), Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar (1874), Ali Hassan Mwinyi (1925), Jakaya Kikwete (1951), John Magufuli (1959), Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar (1929), Majid bin Said of Zanzibar (1834), Mizengo Pinda (1948), and Kassim Majaliwa (1961).

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