Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson, the past brought to life by those who were there.

Coming up in this edition, the assassination of a get rid of him and kill him.

Plus a monumental feat of engineering in the high mountains of the Karakoram,

the crash of Kunkutski at the Paris Air Show of 1973, and the woman who introduced the world to the term date rape.

At that exact moment at age 18 in September of 1990, no one had yet talked about the fact that you could be raped by someone you knew.

That's all to come. First up this week, though, a slice of African history which hinted at an alternative narrative for the continent.

By the late 1960s, most of Africa's 54 countries had achieved independence from their former

colonial masters.

A century of outside oppression was supposed to give way to a new

era of freedom and prosperity. But it didn't always work out like that, and finding the

perfect model for a new Africa proved difficult. The outside world still coveted

Africa's mineral and agricultural wealth and then there was the Cold War with

East and West vying for influence. At this time and against this background, Tanzania was one of the poorest countries

in the world, but a new form of socialism called Ujahmar was being introduced.

And as Rob Walker has been hearing, for many Tanzanians it was still a time of hope and excitement. My Hindusi Nita Koolinda Hadikoufa,

nah, balea acha,

Mama, my Hindusi Nita Kulinha Hadikoufa.

It means, I swear in front of God and in front of the party that I'll guard the revolution until I die.

And that was a bold promise for a 12-year-old living in a remote rural village.

But at the time, Beuhela Lu Nogello was swept up in the enthusiasm for Ujama.

The government believed a new policy would bring about a form of

socialism rooted in the realities of African village life and propaganda about it was everywhere.

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