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Rashidi Mfaume Kawawa

Encyclopedia of World Biography | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

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.

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