Unprecedented stopover of national symbol, Uhuru torch, highlights IITA’s accomplishments in Tanzania

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IITA Tanzania management team was privileged to host the national Uhuru torch for the first time on 27 May at its Youth Incubation Center in Kwembe, Dar es Salaam.

The Uhuru torch is a national symbol in Tanzania depicting freedom, equality, integrity, respect for human dignity, peace, hope, and strengthening union between mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar. The lighting of the Uhuru torch was made on National Independence Day on 9 December 1961 by the first president Mwl Julius Nyerere and later taken to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro as a symbol of national illumination. The Uhuru torch aimed to enlighten and awaken the sense of nationalism, to illuminate the nation by saying “no” to poverty, inequality, illiteracy, diseases, ethnicity, and racialism. Since then, the torch has been carried through the country every year from March to October, passing through all districts to enhance development activities. To underscore its importance, the government budgets the cost for the nationwide run under the president’s office, which also appoints the torch-running team and its leaders.

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