The US is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, it has two of them,” Julius Nyerere, the first president of Tanzania and a prominent anti-colonial and pan-Africanist leader, famously declared. Nyirir served as president of Tanzania from 1964 to 1985, and often used this comparison to counter Western criticism of one-party African governance.

The US is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, it has two of them,” Julius Nyerere, the first president of Tanzania and a prominent anti-colonial and pan-Africanist leader, famously declared. Nyirir served as president of Tanzania from 1964 to 1985, and often used this comparison to counter Western criticism of one-party African governance.