Harrison Mwakyembe

rdf:langString Harrison Mwakyembe

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rdf:langString Dr Harrison Mwakyembe

rdf:langString Dr Harrison Mwakyembe

rdf:langString University of Turin

rdf:langString The University of Hamburg

rdf:langString Tanzanian

rdf:langString Minister of East African Cooperation

rdf:langString Affairs and Justice

rdf:langString Artists and Sports

rdf:langString Minister for Constitutional

rdf:langString Minister for Information, Culture,

rdf:langString for Kyela

rdf:langString John Mwakipesile

rdf:langString December 2005

rdf:langString Dr Harrison George Mwakyembe was born on 10 December 1955 in Kyela in the Southern Highlands Province in colonial Tanganyika. The Southern Highlands Province was divided into Mbeya Region and Iringa Region after Tanganyika won independence from Britain. Kyela is in Mbeya Region. Harrison Mwakyembe is a younger brother of Daimon Mwakyembe, former director of the Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS). Daimon was a schoolmate of African studies scholar and author Godfrey Mwakikagile at Mpuguso Middle School in Rungwe District in the Southern Highlands Province in the early sixties. One of Mwakikagile's teachers at Mpuguso was Leonard Levitt, an American Peace Corp who became a prominent journalist and renowned author whose works include An African Season, the first book ever written by a member of the Peace Corps. Other alumni of Mpuguso Middle School include Brigadier-General Owen Rhodfrey Mwambapa, Mwakikagile's first cousin and a graduate of Sandhurst and head of the Tanzania Military Academy, an army officers' training school; Oscar Mwamwaja, one of Tanzania's first commercial airline pilots and also Mwakikagile's cousin; and David Mwakyusa who became a member of parliament for Rungwe West and cabinet member as Minister of Health and Social Welfare under President Jakaya Kikwete. David Mwakyusa was also the last personal doctor of the first president of Tanzania and father of the nation Mwalimu Julius Nyerere and was with him when Nyerere died at a hospital in London, England, in October 1999. Another elder brother of Harrison Mwakyembe, younger brother of Daimon Mwakyembe, who also attended Mpuguso Middle School in the early sixties was Morrison Mwakyembe who was a classmate of Oscar Mwamwaja. They were one year behind Mwakikagile. Harrison Mwakyembe attended Tukuyu Primary School and Kituli Primary School. He also attended Tabora Boys Secondary School. He later enrolled as a student at the Tanzania School of Journalism in Dar es Salaam where he obtained a Diploma in Journalism before going to the University of Dar es Salaam where he studied law and earned a Bachelor of Laws (LLB). He did post-graduate work in law at the University of Turin, specialising in intellectual property, and earned a certificate before proceeding with his studies. He obtained a Master of Laws (LLM) from the University of Hamburg and continued with his studies at the same school where he also earned a doctorate in law. He later became a lecturer and then senior lecturer in law at the University of Dar es Salaam where he also served, at different times, as head of the department of international law and the department of constitutional and administrative law.