By: Mwalimu J. K. Nyerere - 1959-10-22
Mr Nyerere spoke at length on the TANU demand for responsible self-government in 1959, making clear TANU's refusal to accept a long continuation of the then Government of Civil Servants in which a few elected Ministers are taking part, TANU was demanding for the next stage an elected Government in which a few Civil Servants will still participate. He stressed the desire of Tanganyika for peaceful constitutional progress, and welcomed the announcement that further elections were to be held in 1960
...I have said before elsewhere that we, the people of Tanganyika, would like to light a candle and put it on top of Mount Kilimanjaro which would shine beyond our borders giving hope where there was despair, love where there was hate and dignity where before there was only humiliation. We pray the people of Britain, we sincerely pray the people of Britain and our neighbors of all races to look upon us, to look upon Tanganyika and what we are trying to do not as an embarrassment but as a ray of hope. We cannot, unlike other countries, send rockets to the moon, but we can send rockets of love and hope to all our fellow men wherever they may be...