affectionately nicknamed “Mwalimu” (the professor), the one who was born just a century ago this year and who was, among other things, the first president of Tanzania, definitely has his place in the pantheon of pan-African figures. Not only was Julius Nyerere an activist, community activist and statesman, but he also left a lasting mark as the scholar and poet who first published a Kiswahili translation of several of Shakespeare’s works: Julius Caesar, macbethand The Merchant of Venice. If his first cultural feat of arms…
