How did Swahili become an East African lingua franca? It was not by accident.

Tanganyika came to independence in 1961 no better off economically than any other African nation. Though huge (362,688 sq. mi.) and harshly beautiful, the country was not wealthy.

By his fiery oratory, he soon welded Tanganyika’s 113 politically inarticulate tribes into the monolithic Tanganyika African National Union party.

The political party there which stands for independence is the Tanganyika African National Union, headed by Mr. Julius Nyerere. Another party, more conservative, and quite weak is the United ...

Pakistan's historical ties with Africa provide a strategic foundation to enhance engagement through mutually beneficial partnerships in trade, development, and security.Since 1947, Pakistan has ...

1977 - Tanganyika African National Union and Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi Party merge to become the Party of the Revolution, which is proclaimed to be the only legal party.

The union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar is not the only attempt at political unification in Africa. Previous ones include the Ethiopia-Eritrea Federation (1952-1962); the Ghana-Guinea-Mali Union ...

Katie Wagner, an associate professor in UW’s Department of Botany, holds up a Lates angustifrons, a relative of the Nile perch endemic to Lake Tanganyika. Wagner, who specializes in evolutionary ...

On July 7, 1954, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere urged his Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) party to adopt Kiswahili as a "unifying language for independence struggles". Kenya's founding president ...