Aside from building a home for ANC activists in Morogoro, Tanzania, President Nyerere in 1965 boldly suspended relations with Britain for backing racist Rhodesia (today's Zimbabwe). Realising that Rhodesia wanted to punish Zambia by blocking her off, he sent them barrels of oil
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