biography
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Mwinyi, (Ndugu) Ali Hassan
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pronunciation:
[mweenyee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1925– )
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| biography:
| Tanzanian statesman and president (1985–95), born in Zanzibar, E Tanzania. He trained as a teacher on the island and in Britain, before returning to hold progressively important posts in teaching. He then joined the ministry of education and, after working in a trading corporation on the mainland, entered the government of Julius Nyerere. He held a variety of ministerial and ambassadorial posts until, in 1985, he succeeded Nyerere as president of the United Republic of Tanzania. In 1990 he also succeeded him as Chairman of the ruling party, Chama cha Mapinduzi. |
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