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Mwalimu Julius Nyerere
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Mwalimu Julius Nyerere reported that Tanzania had 85% illiterates, 2 engineers and 12 doctors under British rule, 9% illiterates when he left office, and that income per capita was twice its current level, with one-third fewer children in schools, over a 13‑year period.
“The British Empire left us a country with 85 per cent illiterates, two engineers and 12 doctors. When I left office, we had 9 per cent illiterates and thousands of engineers and doctors. I left offic…”
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