Ombeni sefue biography of william shakespeare

Benjamin William Mkapa, who had the rare privilege to serve as the third President of Tanzania for a decade from November 23, 1995, to December 21, 2005, and who completed his earthly race on Thursday, July 23, 2020, at 21:30 hours at the picturesque Emilio Mzena Memorial hospital in Dar es Salaam, would have turned 85 years today, November 12, 2023, had the cold hands of death not taken him away from us. 

Almost three and half years have passed since the nation bid him an emotional farewell. It is mind-boggling how time flies! William Shakespeare, an English playwright, poet and actor widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language,  wrote on July 23, 1690: “The evil that men do lives after them, but the good is often interred with their bones.”

As I do not want “the good” that the late President Mkapa did for our country to be “interred with his bones,” I have, consequently, penned this special article in his honour.

Nativity and education

Mkapa came into the world on Saturday, November 12, 1938. Lupaso, a remote rural village in Masasi district, Mtwara region, was his birthplace. He was the baby in a family of four children to his father, William Matwa

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