Roland Brown | |
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![]() 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]