Richard Gott in Tanzania Richard Gott A clarification from Tony Hall Richard was and is a struggler, heroic at times, a great journalist and a fine Guardian foreign editor. True, he did stir it for us (already squabbling) leftist expat hacks on Tanzania's national newspaper during the ujamaa period, making it easier for some of us, including him, to be fired, and we were furious. But he wasn't the immediate trigger. And he didn't seem to care much as he had the Guardian in London to go back to from his fun-filled sabbatical in East Africa as a foreign editor. Unlike us, he was no longer trying to take Nyerere's socialist experiment seriously anyway. Often the upper class dilettante in style, he had started stirring up the local reactionary-minded journalists against the leftists -- just as always, with Cuba , and lately with the Latin American progressive awakening as a whole -- he denigrates the 'whites' and validates only blacks and browns as capa
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