Nyerere's Tanzania: The lessons for development, unity & peace

Mwalimu Julius Nyerere

Godfrey Madaraka Nyerere

with Madaraka Nyerere son of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Tanzania's 1st President

Meeting, Exhibition of children's art
& Benefit with live music

Saturday 16 June, 11 am - midnight
Swahili: Tanzania ya Nyerere: Mafunzo ya maendeleo, umoja na amani

Trinity United Reformed Church, Buck Street, London NW1
Camden Town Tube
All Welcome -- Wheelchair Accessible Hall -- Accessible toilets nearby

Entrance to exhibition: by donation
Entrance to meeting: funded organisations & professionals £20; waged £10; low waged £5; unwaged £3
Entrance to benefit: waged £10; low waged & unwaged £5
Asylum seekers free No one turned away for lack of funds

On Soweto Day & the Day of the African Child 11 am-1 pm
Exhibition of children's art: The Work that Children Do
Drawings, paintings, collage, sculpture, writings...
from children in Butiama (Tanzania), Chattisgarh (India), Dublin & Galway (Ireland), Barcelona (Spain) & some London schools.

The art will draw attention to how hard children must work to survive poverty, in Africa and India. Although most children in Britain do not have to work as hard, many live in poverty and many are carers. 175,000 children as young as five look after parents who are ill or have disabilities; others take care of younger children when their parents are out at work on top of schoolwork. Children's work, especially the work that girls do, is mostly hidden & unrecognised

2-5 pm Meeting

Nyerere's Tanzania
The lessons for development, unity & peace
with
Godfrey Madaraka Nyerere
son of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Tanzania's 1st President

Republication in English & first publication in Spanish of
The Arusha Declaration

In 1967, newly independent Tanzania led by President Julius Nyerere issued The Arusha Declaration, one of the great documents of the 20th century. It confronts the problems for economically poor countries developing economically while trying to remain independent of international capital. Beginning with the working life of the people, especially of women in the countryside who ‘work harder than anyone else’, it sets out an alternative strategy of Ujamaa or `African socialism': self-reliance, co-operation and preventing the corruption of the government and the ruling party.

President Nyerere continued the struggle for African unity which President Nkrumah of Ghana had initiated. Despite poverty, Tanzania has uniquely succeeded in avoiding ethnic and other wars and dictatorships. As President Hugo Chávez announces Venezuela's withdrawal from the World Bank and the IMF in favour of an economic union of Third World countries, the principles of The Arusha Declaration are again on the agenda.

To celebrate the abolition of the slave trade 200 years ago,
Ghana's independence 50 years ago & India's independence 60 years ago.

8 pm till late
Benefit Gig 4 Butiama school

Butiama is President Nyerere's village where the family still lives. All proceeds will go to the school there started by Mme Maria Nyerere, his widow. Some of the work of its pupils will be included in the exhibition.

BIN (Kazuko Hohki, Andy Cox & Marvin Miller)
Friends African Dance & Drumming Group
Stefano Bellavia, singer songwriter
Shalika & Harin, Sri Lankan rhythm rock/pop duo
Yaabafunk Afrobeat Hi-Life

More info on benefit gig here

Global Women's Strike
Crossroads Women's Centre, 230a Kentish Town Road, London NW5 2AB
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