Jeremiah Kasambala was one of the first ministers in the cabinet of Julius Nyerere after Tanganyika (now part of Tanzania) won independence from Britain on 9 December 1961. He rose to prominence when he was the head of the Rungwe African Cooperative Union in Rungwe District in the Southern Highlands Province.[1][2]
The Rungwe African Cooperative Union Ltd, successor to the Mwakaleli Coffee Growers Cooperative Society was one of the largest farmers' unions in the country.[3] Like the other agricultural cooperatives, it played a major role in mobilising its members and other people in the 1950s to support the struggle for independence which was led by the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU).[4][5][6]
TANU was the largest political party in the country. It was formed in Dar es Salaam, the colonial capital of Tanganyika, on 7 July 1954. Nyerere was elected president of TANU.
During the sixties, Kasambala served in different capacities in the government under President Nyerere, including being minister of trade and cooperatives, a portfolio that reflected his background as a leader of the cooperative union in Rungwe District; and minister of industries, minerals and energy among other posts.[7][8][9]
References edit
- ^ Mwakikagile, Godfrey, Tanzania under Mwalimu Nyerere: Reflections on an African Statesman, New Africa Press, Pretoria, South Africa, (2006), p. 17
- ^ Mwakikagile, Godfrey, Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era, New Africa Press, Pretoria, South Africa, Fifth Edition, (2010), p. 103
- ^ Lyimo, F. F., Rural Cooperation: In the Cooperative Movement in Tanzania, African Books Collective (2012), p. 37, ISBN 9789987081554 [1] (Retrieved 5 May 2019)
- ^ Klugman, Jeni; Neyapti, Bilini; and Stewart, Frances; Conflict and Growth in Africa, Vol. 2: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, Development Centre Studies, OECD, Paris, France, (1999), p. 79
- ^ Lyimo, Francis Fanuel, Rural Cooperation in the Cooperative in Tanzania, Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, (2012), p. 37
- ^ Illife, John, A Modern History of Tanganyika, Cambridge University Press (1979), p. 288.
- ^ Tanganyika News Review, Volumes 1 – 15, Tanganyika Information Services, Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika, 1961, p. 14
- ^ Africa Report, (1965), p. 30
- ^ EAPH Political Studies, Volume 3, East African Publishing House, Nairobi, Kenya, (1967), pp. 128, 227