[Author's note (16/10/99): Nyerere is no more with us. The fulsome tribute paid to him almost universally shows the giant of a man that Nyerere was. On his 75 birthday two years ago, I wrote a piece which was published in the local newspaper Observer. Rereading it today, I feel the best tribute one can pay is to be able to say behind his back what we said in front of him. I cannot do any better than reproduce it. I would not even want to change the tense because although Nyerere is no more, the Mwalimu in him - his ideas and the struggle for equality, humanity, justice and dignity that he stood for - lives on. Mwalimu did not die. His struggle and ideas in defence of the Oppressed live on.]