Roland Brown

This article is about the English barrister. For the American paleobotanist and geologist, see Roland W. Brown. For the American physician, see Roland Peter 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

1. "JOAN WICKEN". tzaffairs.org. January 2005. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
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.
3. James Clagett Taylor (1963). The Political Development of Tanganyika. Stanford University Press. pp. 197–. ISBN 978-0-8047-0147-1.
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.
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.

External links

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