From manifesto to legacy: Tanzania’s living promise of conservation

From manifesto to legacy: Tanzania’s living promise of conservation

TANZANIA: IN September 1961, on the eve of Tanganyika’s independence, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere offered his people and the world a declaration that would come to define the nation’s relationship with nature. Standing in Arusha, he issued words that continue to echo across savannas, forests and mountains six decades later: “The survival of our wildlife is a matter of grave concern to all of us in Africa. These wild creatures amid the wild places the…