OER in Africa’s higher education institutions

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Notes

1. Mwalimu Julius Nyerere trained as a teacher at Makerere in Uganda while it was still a college of the University of London and later went to study history and political economy at Edinburgh University (Scotland). He was the first Tanzanian to study at a British university and only the second to gain a university degree outside Africa. It was in Edinburgh that Nyerere first began to develop his vision of what he later dubbed Ujamaa – a form of African socialism that he introduced in Tanzania soon after becoming its first president in 1962. Recognizing the power of language to both unify and divide people, he made Kiswahili the national language of Tanzania, and even translated Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar into the Kiswahili language. His vision of self-reliance continues to impact and inform the nature of political and social interaction in Tanzania (Tweedie, n.d.).