"We in Africa have no more need of being "converted" to socialism than we have of being "taught" democracy. Both are rooted in our past—in the traditional society which produced us."
— Julius Nyerere

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Quoted in "Ujamaa" Revisited: Indigenous and European Influences in Nyerere's Social and Political Thought, Viktoria Stöger-Eising