> From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ...An uncharacteristically humble and modest national leader This rings absolutely true. My only contact was at a conference commemorating his 75th birthday in 1997. After he had the first comment on a paper on post-apartheid S.African subimperialism (in a huge auditorium whose electricity supply, including microphone, had just cut out), about a dozen other people (including undergrads) were allowed to ask questions before the chair recognised a patient Mwalimu (whose hand had been up steadily) for his second comment. Nowhere else in Africa would that happen. And he was, at the end, apparently making serious gestures of reconcilation to the scattered and battered Tanzanian left, which he had played the key role in repressing during the 1970s. There was talk of Mwalimu joining the Jubilee South conference in November in Johannesburg, where the comrades were expecting to revisit his 1983 call for a Third World debtors' cartel. His passing is a great loss to that movement, and to committed African nationalists.
