Julius Nyerere, born on this day in 1922, was a socialist and anti-colonial Tanzanian politician who promoted a Pan-Africanist ideology known as Ujamaa, which means "extended family" or "brotherhood" in Swahili.
Julius Kambarage Nyerere was born on April 13, 1922 in Butiama, on the eastern shore of lake Victoria in north west Tanganyika. His father was the chief of the small Zanaki tribe. He was 12 before he started school (he had to walk 26 miles to Musoma to do so). Later, he transferred for his secondary education to the Tabora Government Secondary School. His intelligence was quickly recognized by the Roman Catholic fathers who taught him. He went on, with their help, to train as a teacher at Makerere University in Kampala (Uganda). On gaining his Certificate, he taught for three years and then went on a government scholarship to study history and political economy for his Master of Arts at the University of Edinburgh (he was the first Tanzanian to study at a British university and only the second to gain a university degree outside Africa. In Edinburgh, partly through his encounter with Fabian thinking, Nyerere began to develop his particular vision of connecting socialism with African communal living.
On his return to Tanganyika, Nyerere was forced by the colonial authorities to make a choice between his political activities and his teaching. He was reported as saying that he was a schoolmaster by choice and a politician by accident. Working to bring a number of different nationalist factions into one grouping he achieved this in 1954 with the formation of TANU (the Tanganyika African National Union). He became President of the Union (a post he held until 1977), entered the Legislative Council in 1958 and became chief minister in 1960. A year later Tanganyika was granted internal self-government and Nyerere became premier. Full independence came in December 1961.
In 1962, Nyerere was elected the first president of Tanganyika, a predecessor to modern Tanzania and a newly independent republic. His administration emphasized decolonizing society and the state, also unsuccessfully pursuing a Pan-Africanist East African Federation with Uganda and Kenya.
In 1967, Nyerere issued the "Arusha Declaration", forbidding government leaders from owning shares or holding directorates in private companies, receiving more than one salary, or owning any houses that they rented to others. In compliance with this declaration, Nyerere sold his second home and his wife donated her poultry farm to a local co-operative.
Nyerereβs integrity, ability as a political orator and organizer, and readiness to work with different groupings was a significant factor in independence being achieved without bloodshed. In this he was helped by the co-operative attitude of the last British governor β Sir Richard Turnbull. In 1964, following a coup in Zanzibar (and an attempted coup in Tanganyika itself) Nyerere negotiated with the new leaders in Zanzibar and agreed to absorb them into the union government. The result was the creation of the Republic of Tanzania.
Nyerere's government also aided in liberation struggles elsewhere in Africa, training and aiding anti-apartheid South African groups and helping to depose Ugandan ruler Idi Amin. In 1985, Nyerere stepped down as President and was succeeded by Ali Hassan Mwinyi in a notably peaceful and stable transition of power.
"Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and humiliated."
Julius Nyerere
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Got the ball rolling finally on ordering a bunch of clear plastic bins for thr walk in fridge at work so when orders come in they csn be unpacked and not left in the cardboard box they came in for a week or so which isn't sanitary and fucking sucks for organization as well as doing order and prep lists and our daytime dude who's in his mid 40s and burt out just slings everything wherever it's easiest for him with no regard for people working service who actually need to find things fast. Last week I got the go ahead to re-arrange the walk in to my desires and to label the sections of the shelves for what goes where. It has been an uphill battle to have these labels read or followed instead of people picking the first space something fits that they see but it'll get there. Our chef somehow can't get the owner to give a quarterly budget instead of him needing to ask permission for every little thing. Turns out front of house manager isn't a huge doormat on stuff like this and ordered me up 9 20 Qt bins and lids to match. I'm making this place efficient so people don't have to work as hard even if they really prefer not thinking and brute forcing everything. I have dug a fantastic spring, made a luxurious horse trail, led them to water and if they don't drink ill hold their head under until they do.
This extends to service as well. I'm not management but I'm bossy and have implied authority cause the chef is a bit neurotic so the dinner service running of the show is my thing and I found out from bothering to talk to front of house cause we tend to get chit bombed with all.of our dine ins at once cause every server runs like 3 tables at once and rings them all up at the same time and no one is communicating with takeout who is still giving us 20 minute windows. Turns out our turnaround times are so fast that they feel they can do that cause often it just piles up in my expo window and I've gotta plate and garnish literally every dish. There is a team running tables or stations for everything else. I actually have to do a thing with every single dish served as well as keep it all in order. So when asked for an estimate of how much longer we can take on dine ins I was told ten fucking minutes. Our takeouts are windowed with sometimes 15 minutes to spare on the ticket. People are too desperate to get a chit out of their face and it always becomes my problem and if front of house is giving us thar kind of margin then we should be slowing down for quality reasons as well. That shit is dying in the window for 10 minutes or so sometime. I want everyone to work smart and less hard and less fast. We have a crazy retention rare for a kitchen, our newest guy has been around over 2 years. It's a good team and we should fucking relax. We are good enough to power walk and not sprint.
I am being absolutely iron fisted about not working as hard. I feel like Stalin
Damn I hope rearranging the walk in is sooo satisfying I love doing that shit. I feel like I'm similarly minded; efficiency is so important to me. All the equipment should be in working order, FIFO your shit, prep stuff for the next shift etc. Even working in an office setting I would do this. Its insane to me how little most people seem to care about making things easier on themselves and their team mates thiugh