Roland Brown

Roland Brown
Roland Brown
	Brown (second left)
1st Attorney General of Tanzania
	In office; 1964–1965
Appointed by	Julius Nyerere
Succeeded by	Mark Bomani
Personal details
Nationality	British
Profession	Barrister

Roland Brown is an English barrister who served as the first Attorney General of Tanzania.[1]

Early life and career

Brown was a part time lecturer at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He was appointed as a constitutional adviser to Julius Nyerere, the leader of the Tanganyika Territory's independence movement.[2]

Tanzania

In 1961, he was appointed as the first Attorney General of independent Tanganyika, succeeding J. S. R. Cole. However, he was not a member of the cabinet.[3] After the revolution that overthrew the neighbouring Sultanate of Zanzibar in 1964, Nyerere is said to have asked him to draft a union agreement in the strictest confidence between Tanganyika and the new state of the People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba.[4] In 1965, he was succeeded by Mark Bomani.

Following the 1967 Arusha Declaration, Brown was given three days to prepare a bill for the nationalization of private owned banks in the country.[5]

References

"JOAN WICKEN". tzaffairs.org. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
Charles Parkinson (22 November 2007). Bills of Rights and Decolonization: The Emergence of Domestic Human Rights Instruments in Britain's Overseas Territories. Oxford University Press. pp. 231–. ISBN 978-0-19-923193-5.
James Clagett Taylor (1963). The Political Development of Tanganyika. Stanford University Press. pp. 197–. ISBN 978-0-8047-0147-1.
Godfrey Mwakikagile (2008). The Union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar: Product of the Cold War?. Intercontinental Books. pp. 117–. ISBN 978-0-9814258-5-6.
James H. Mittelman (24 September 2013). Underdevelopment and the Transition to Socialism: Mozambique and Tanzania. Elsevier. pp. 159–. ISBN 978-1-4832-5787-7.

External links

Conceiving the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union in the Midst of the Cold War: Internal and International Factors (PDF)

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[1] "JOAN WICKEN". tzaffairs.org. Retrieved 4 January 2014.

[Parkinson2007-2] Charles Parkinson (22 November 2007). Bills of Rights and Decolonization: The Emergence of Domestic Human Rights Instruments in Britain's Overseas Territories. Oxford University Press. pp. 231–. ISBN 978-0-19-923193-5.

[Taylor1963-3] James Clagett Taylor (1963). The Political Development of Tanganyika. Stanford University Press. pp. 197–. ISBN 978-0-8047-0147-1.

[Mwakikagile2008-4] Godfrey Mwakikagile (2008). The Union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar: Product of the Cold War?. Intercontinental Books. pp. 117–. ISBN 978-0-9814258-5-6.

[Mittelman2013-5] James H. Mittelman (24 September 2013). Underdevelopment and the Transition to Socialism: Mozambique and Tanzania. Elsevier. pp. 159–. ISBN 978-1-4832-5787-7.