He first competed for the party's presidential nomination in 1995 when he was famously chastised by ex-President Julius Nyerere still a kingmaker for his rapid acquisition of wealth...

Lowassa's resignation in 2008 over the Richmond affair was the second serious setback to his political career (AC Vol 53 No 10 Lowassa plans his comeback) after ex-President Julius Nyerere's public tongue-lashing in 1995...

Critics say the sad saga of inept power sector management continued with the late President John Magufuli's commissioning of the Julius Nyerere Hydroelectric Dam on the Rufiji river...

Dams in distress The Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project (JNHPP) dam on the Rufiji River formerly known as Stiegler's Gorge has also fallen behind schedule (AC Vol 61 No 14 Magufuli wants a mega-dam)...

Magufuli won greater popular appeal than any president since Julius Nyerere...

President Magufuli and his supporters argued that the dam – renamed the Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project last October – was essential to power his ambitious industrialisation programme to put an end to electricity shortages once and for all and to reduce the rate of deforestation by providing a source of cheap energy to replace charcoal (AC Vol 58 No 1 The power and the glory & Vol 60 No 18 Bridge over troubled finance)...

The talks' moderator former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere denied the new party separate representation and it remained outside for the entire process continuing its bush war in Burundi with Ndayishimiye one of its commanders and later its spokesman (AC Vol 43 No 6 Alternating currents)...

This will be on top of public investments such as the controversial Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project at Stiegler's Gorge in the south and the standard-gauge railway project (AC Vol 60 No 18 Bridge over troubled finance)...

He cited ethnic unity in Tanzania under Julius Nyerere's leadership as an example Kenya should copy...

Wilf Mbanga (with notebook) sharing a joke with Robert Mugabe and Julius Nyerere in 1984 But I find it hard to mourn him today...

Some experts familiar with the agricultural scene and government policy detect the hand of die-hard 'socialist' members of the Julius Nyerere-influenced old guard who remain influential in the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party and the government bureaucracy...