Tuesday, October 14, 2014

The Legacy of Julius K. Nyerere




Nyerere became a leader of a country that only had 2 engineers and 12 doctors employed by the government. 


Adult literacy rate was 17 percent in 1960, it increased to 90.4 in 1986 and dropped to 69.4 in 2013. 


Life expectancy was 43.65 in 1960, it increased to 51.17 in 1985.


4,907 students were enrolled in British colonial government schools and 115,000 in mission schools
 between 1923 and 1961; 3,361,228 students were enrolled in government schools in 1980.


"To measure a country's wealth by its gross national product is to measure things, not satisfactions"~Julius Kambarage Nyerere ~13 April 1922 to 14 October 1999.

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