Rashidi Mfaume Kawawa is a Tanzanian political leader born in 1929 who devoted his career to policies aimed at improving living standards for his fellow citizens. He was born in Songea district, Tanzania and received his primary education in Dar es Salaam and secondary education at Tabora Government Secondary School, where Julius Nyerere also attended. Kawawa refused the opportunity to continue his education abroad so that his family's limited resources could be used to educate his siblings.
Rashidi Mfaume Kawawa is a Tanzanian political leader born in 1929 who devoted his career to policies aimed at improving living standards for his fellow citizens. He was born in Songea district, Tanzania and received his primary education in Dar es Salaam and secondary education at Tabora Government Secondary School, where Julius Nyerere also attended. Kawawa refused the opportunity to continue his education abroad so that his family's limited resources could be used to educate his siblings.
Rashidi Mfaume Kawawa is a Tanzanian political leader born in 1929 who devoted his career to policies aimed at improving living standards for his fellow citizens. He was born in Songea district, Tanzania and received his primary education in Dar es Salaam and secondary education at Tabora Government Secondary School, where Julius Nyerere also attended. Kawawa refused the opportunity to continue his education abroad so that his family's limited resources could be used to educate his siblings.
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Rashidi Mfaume Kawawa
Rashidi Mfaume Kawawa (born 1929), Tanzanian political leader, devoted his career to policies designed to increase his fellow citizens' standard of living. The son of an elephant hunter and the eldest of eight children, Rashidi Mfaume Kawawa was born in the Songea district of Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in eastern Africa. After primary schooling in Dar es Salaam, he finished his formal education at Tabora Government Secondary School (1951-1956), the alma mater of Julius Nyerere, leader in the fight for Tanganyika's independence. Kawawa refused the opportunity to continue his education at Uganda's Makerere College, thus enabling his father to use the family's limited resources to educate his siblings.