Offers a detailed, entertaining account of the life and ideas of one of Africa's greatest statesmen that reaches far earlier than this, and makes a valuable contribution to Africa's political history as a result. AFRICA AT LSE BLOG A major contribution to the field. THE ROUND TABLE A well-researched, scholarly, yet highly-readable, ... Read morework about one of the most remarkable, but least understood, African leaders of the last century. How welcome it is.... A wonderful book and one that should be on the shelves of universities and secondary schools not only in Africa but in those countries in the Commonwealth where African studies are underway.. . This is a book that any serious student of Africa in the 20th century should read in order to better understand the way that the massive influence of the Roman Catholic Church had on the life of Julius Nyerere. - Trevor Grundy, POLITICSWEB/Africa Unauthorised It is an effective chronicle of a young man who excelled in school, took Roman Catholic missionary instruction, received a degree from Makerere College in Uganda, received another undergraduate degree from the University of Edinburgh, and returned home to teach secondary school and help create an independent republic. Recommended. CHOICE Affords one insights into what could have formed, and informed, Nyerere's later political agenda and action... The value of this book is that it suggests a multiplicity of influences, from village life in a very traditional setting to the influence of Catholicism and to the best education the West could offer... Dr Thomas Molony helps us to broaden and deepen our knowledge. The East African Show Less