On the one hand, its former president, Julius Nyerere, is trying to negotiate the removal of the Buyoya regime in Burundi.

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Col Ojukwu's Biafran aspirations where supported by Tanzania's first President, Julius Nyerere - the influential African statesman and pan-Africanist.

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Moreover, the world crisis may bolster old socialists in the CCM who want a return to ujamaa, a failed model of rural collectivisation propounded by Tanzania's founding president, Julius Nyerere.

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