Julius Nyerere's Drive for Economic Growth Is Exciting, but Will It Work? African governments, admiring the presidential palaces and flashy hotels in their capitals, usually blind themselves to the searing realities of their woeful economic development. But not Tanzania. Tanzania has embarked on a program that faces squarely the forces that suck vitality from African development - elitism, corruption, dependence, laziness, neglect of agriculture, and foolish schooling. Since African governments can not blind themselves forever, the Tanzanian experiment is exciting and significant. Other countries will some day have to take on the problems that Tanzania is taking on now. But the experiment has severe problems of its own. It is largely the work of one man - President Julius Nyerere - who can analyze the trouble of his country with coldness and incisiveness. His lieutenants lack that gift...

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