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3/5/1963 - A Light on Kilimanjaro by David Hapgood

NOT FOR PUBLICATION INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS DH March A Light KiIimanjare Africa Hetel Dar Sal T ngaytka Mr Richard H Nelte Institute Current World Affairs Avenue York Y Dear Mr eltet To newly arrived coast West Africa striking think aboutJulius K Nerere President TanKanyta photograph Page newsletter It official picture widely pesters calendar TanKaayiha Af rican National Union governing political party Probably means little Americans seeing pictures polttician wielding sorts unlikely tools But Africa Nyererets choice photo profoundly important symbol To knowledge West African chief state himself photographed using agricultural It picture official symbol qyerere hesitated In West Africa visual symbols government often thiss mobilization masses Mercedes mnisters yererets picture nation building program through hopes develop Tan ganyika create people sense nationhood Self English speaking Africa called human vestment Guineas mobilizing underemployed people labor projects eommunit interest which state means finance A brief Tangaayia Justify passing judgements which But Guinean experience shews After Guinea became independent human investment ballyhooed development Todaylittle about accomplishments isible Seou Tourhminimized importance The published statistics human investment lieved fabrications claims Guinea would plenty about What wrong The theory seemed valid enough investment hands government officials whose motives interests different those villagers People dragooned giving their labor projects rarely proved their lives respond their needs At times forced build party headquarters housing officials military buildings started burst enthusiasm unfinished unused The officials would choose somethiu shoved usually butldin rather these visible tmprovoments example griultural productivtty might enlisted peasant support See DH description government typie As Tour himself people ppetnteds hrder bilize eeend There contrast between demanding unpaid labor underfed peasants money government government wastes money foreign embassies luxury buying level corruptten Tour aware ernmentJs faults speeches provide liveltest criticism present Guinea seems powerless control capital Conakry alone Though criticism ficial doetrtne geyernment propaganda machine spends dinate amount discussing world issues denouncing foreign devils reason tmust inter ventton France Soviet Union certainly responsible Guinea troubles Ouoe euphoria independence gones Tanganyika human investment Guinea Ifs critics projects wasted waters reads nowhere apart first people Tanganytka likely become discouraged resistant government projects A certain percentage failures understandable certain percentage successes necessary become sustaining What interesting today degree which Tanganyikan leader8 dangers perhaps because happened West Africa A official TANU leader I spoke mocked grandstanding corruption Ghana Nigeria Tanganytka dtffeFent argued because large educated class intent imitating European The offioial C Do Meuya projects ginated village itself government should intervene discourage project cannot sustain building school examples teacher available The govermnentJs regional studies great emphasis villageS need8 Vice PresidentKavava saids seminar inJanuar We cannot expect people interest unless first supported their little If people water their cattle first giving seheol Myerere himself trying prevent division country educated urban elite rural meaning photograph At every opportunitys Myerere participates preJects while photographer there mtnister His public image simples circumstance West Africa notably lacking His speeches address National Asembly December after independence mteiecea clarity really Atthesetime theretsaongconcentrationofpower ofTthe verent therefore Nyerere Strikes banned uuions cludinc aioulral workers union largely eliminated cfores aently there ofmngparticipa ooulsor already crime oppose Theone waysystalreareality inpraottcehbeenme ctrine Nyerere sreong bning pther pties possible debatetaT Party officials initial election contests betweenTmembers oncoaKedtwhether factions representing ffering interests alloyed other issue The barrier between partyd service being eliminated 1power being concen trated inTon theory thatTrepresents people Thtseisthetheoryofthe tnineatitsstatics demecrattc unlike Cemmm party enlist entire population members But Sekou Tour frequently plained PDG acted defend populaFinterest despite paper pevers elite geyerns unchecked Myerere seems aware problem office menths devoteful1 nizing TAkes On 0eteber years before T nganytk becam ependent Nyerere We peeple Tanganyik weuld light candle Meunt Ktlianjare shine beyend berders giving where there despair where there dignity where befere there Such perhaps easier light beraing erigin enthusiasm spent And Kilim streng light depends easily sauffbd Nyerere heard murder Sylvanue 01ympte where greatly admired But Myerere eandl seems bright6r West Afri H 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