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“We, the people of Tanganyika, would like to light a candle and put it on top of Mount Kilimanjaro which would shine beyond our borders giving hope where there was despair, love where there was hate and dignity where before there was only humiliation.”

Source: Speech to the Tanganyika Legislative Council, Dar es Salaam, 22 October 1959

Context Spoken two years before independence as leader of TANU, which held most elected seats; the image became the Uhuru Torch lit on Kilimanjaro in December 1961.

Julius NyerereTanzania · 1922–1999

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