Record Nr.

UNINA9910965672503321

Autore

Mtei Edwin <1932->

Titolo

From goatherd to governor : the autobiography of Edwin Mtei / / Edwin Mtei

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Dar es Salaam, : Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers, c2009

ISBN


9786613005083
9781283005081
1283005085
9789987081486
9987081487
9789987081356
9987081355
9789987102600
9987102603

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Disciplina

967.804092

Soggetti

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political

HISTORY / Africa / East

Tanzania History

Tanzania Officials and employees Biography

Tanzania Politics and government 1964-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acronyms; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 - My Life in Summary; Chapter 2 - Birth and Childhood; Chapter 3 - Going to School; Chapter 4 - High School and University College; Chapter 5 - Employment and Engagement; Chapter 6 - Joining the Civil Service and Getting Married; Chapter 7 - Promotion and Independence; Chapter 8 - Secondment to the East African Common Services Organisation (EACSO); Chapter 9 - Translation into Finance; Chapter 10 - Appointment as Governor; Chapter 11 - Launching and Nurturing a Central Bank

Chapter 12 - The Arusha Declaration and Birthof the

CommunityChapter 13 - International Finance and the Payments System; Chapter 14 - Growing in the Bank; Chapter 15 - Back to an EAC on the Brink of Collapse; Chapter 16 - Back to Finance; Chapter 17 - Events Leading to My Resignation; Chapter 18 - Economic and Other Policies of the Nyerere Regime; Chapter 19 - Public Financier turned Farmer; Chapter 20 - Appointment to the Executive Board of the IMF; Chapter 21 - Mixing Farming with Public Service; Chapter 22 - Multiparty Politics and Nurturing a Political Party

Chapter 23 - The 1995 General ElectionsChapter 24 - Subsequent General Elections; Chapter 25 - Epilogue; Glossary of non-english words used in the text; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

From Goatherd to Governor is Edwin Mtei's autobiography. It is a story of the journey a few Africans of his generation made, from humble beginnings to heights of success and power. Mr. Mtei was the first Governor of the Bank of Tanzania and the architect of Central Banking in Tanzania, Secretary General of the East African Community and Minister of Finance in Nyerere's Government. Born in 1932 in Marangu, Moshi, he was brought up in a grass-thatched conical hut by his mother, a single parent; he attended 'bush' school at Ngaruma Lutheran Parish Church, and herded goats after lessons finished;