Roland Brown | |
|---|---|
 Brown (second left) | |
| 1st Attorney General of Tanzania | |
| In office 1964–1965 | |
| Appointed by | Julius Nyerere |
| Succeeded by | Mark Bomani |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | British |
| Profession | Barrister |
Roland Brown is an English barrister who served as the first Attorney General of Tanzania. [1]
Brown was a part time lecturer at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He was appointed as a constitutional adviser to Julius Nyerere,the leader of the Tanganyika Territory's independence movement. [2]
In 1961,he was appointed as the first Attorney General of independent Tanganyika,succeeding J. S. R. Cole. However,he was not a member of the cabinet. [3] After the revolution that overthrew the neighbouring Sultanate of Zanzibar in 1964,Nyerere is said to have asked him to draft a union agreement in the strictest confidence between Tanganyika and the new state of the People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba. [4] In 1965,he was succeeded by Mark Bomani.
Following the 1967 Arusha Declaration,Brown was given three days to prepare a bill for the nationalization of private owned banks in the country. [5]
Tanzania,officially the United Republic of Tanzania,is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the northwest;Kenya to the northeast;the Indian Ocean to the east;Mozambique and Malawi to the south;Zambia to the southwest;and Rwanda,Burundi,and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Mount Kilimanjaro,Africa's highest mountain,is in northeastern Tanzania. According to the 2022 national census,Tanzania has a population of nearly 62 million,making it the most populous country located entirely south of the equator.
The modern-day African Great Lakes state of Tanzania dates formally from 1964,when it was formed out of the union of the much larger mainland territory of Tanganyika and the coastal archipelago of Zanzibar. The former was a colony and part of German East Africa from the 1880s to 1919 when,under the League of Nations,it became a British mandate. It served as a British military outpost during World War II,providing financial help,munitions,and soldiers. In 1947,Tanganyika became a United Nations Trust Territory under British administration,a status it kept until its independence in 1961. The island of Zanzibar thrived as a trading hub,successively controlled by the Portuguese,the Sultanate of Oman,and then as a British protectorate by the end of the nineteenth century.
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Tanganyika was a sovereign state,comprising the mainland part of present-day Tanzania,that existed from 1961 until 1964. It first gained independence from the United Kingdom on 9 December 1961 as a Commonwealth realm headed by Queen Elizabeth II before becoming a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations a year later. After signing the Articles of Union on 22 April 1964 and passing an Act of Union on 25 April,Tanganyika officially joined with the People's Republic of Zanzibar to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar on Union Day,26 April 1964. The new state changed its name to the United Republic of Tanzania within a year.
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Tanganyika was a colonial territory in East Africa which was administered by the United Kingdom in various guises from 1916 until 1961. It was initially administered under a military occupation regime. From 20 July 1922,it was formalised into a League of Nations mandate under British rule. From 1946,it was administered by the UK as a United Nations trust territory.
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