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Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

Mwalimu Julius Kambrage Nyerere – Pic of the Week

Posted by: Margaret Wood

A friend’s son, who lived in Tanzania for a year, gave me this lovely cloth which hangs in my office.  The centerpiece is a picture of Julius Kambrage Nyerere who is considered the father of modern Tanzania.  Mwalimu is the Swahili term for teacher which was President Nyerere’s first profession before he entered politics.

Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

The Perils of Widowhood

Posted by: Hanibal Goitom

As part of my daily duties on the Global Legal Research team at the Law Library of Congress, I recently had to look into the issue of gender-based violence in Kenya and South Africa.  In the course of this exercise, I noticed that despite various law reform initiatives to strengthen laws designed to prevent certain …