NYERERE DAY: Untold story of how Nyerere won Africa’s deadly war

What you need to know:

  • As the nation commemorates the 15th anniversary of the death of founding president, fresh details  have emerged on how the global statesman built an eight-year-long case as a curtain raiser to  the war against Idi Amin.
  • LEADERSHIP:  Despite obstacles from international, regional communities Nyerere emerged the winner against Uganda’s dictator
  • Fifteen years after Nyerere, and 36 years since the former president led the nation in the war to tame Amin’s forces of aggression, veteran journalist Attilio Tagalile, sheds light on the intrigues, diplomatic fallout and conspiracy theory—few years before the ‘Kagera war’