Dar es Salaam. As Tanganyika, Uganda and Kenya marched toward independence in the early 1960s, the moment was widely celebrated as the pinnacle of African nationalism. Flags were raised, anthems sung, and new governments installed.
But for Tanzania’s founding president, Julius Nyerere, the celebrations carried a shadow of regret — the region had missed its best chance to become a united East African state before the seal of sovereignty set in.
