He spent his early childhood in Kigoma and Ujiji in western Tanganyika, Morogoro which then was part of the Coast Province, and in Mbeya and Rungwe District in the Southern Highlands. His parents also lived in Kilosa in the Coast Province, in Handeni and Amani in northeastern Tanganyika. His family lived in different parts of Tanganyika when his father worked as a medical assistant during British colonial rule, and at the Amani Institute which was founded by the German colonial rulers - who preceded the British - and became world-famous as a tropical research institute.
He attended Songea Secondary School in Ruvuma Region in southern Tanzania (1965 - 1968), and Tambaza High School (Form V and Form VI - standard 13 and standard 14) in the nation's capital Dar es Salaam from 1969 - 1970.
He started working as a reporter of the nation's largest newspaper, "The Standard," in 1969 when he was still in high school. He also once worked as an information officer at the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in Dar es Salaam in the early 1970s.
He is a graduate of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, USA, and the author of several books: "Economic Development in Africa"; "Africa and the West"; "The Modern African State: Quest for Transformation"; "Military Coups in West Africa since the Sixties"; "Army Rule in East and Central Africa"; "Africa after Independence: Realities of Nationhood"; "Ethnic Politics in Kenya and Nigeria, and the Nigerian Civil War 1967 - 1970"; "Quest for Peace and Stability in Africa: Are Colonial Boundaries Outmoded?"; "The Angolan Civil War: Its Cold War Origins and Ethnic Dimensions"; "Civil Wars in Rwanda and Burundi: Conflict Resolution in Africa"; "The Black Conservative Phenomenon in Contemporary America: Contending Ideologies, Conservatism versus Liberalism"; "Conservatives and Black America"; "Resistance to Racial Equality: Limited Integration as a Viable Option for Black America."
His forthcoming books include "Africa since the Sixties, Algeria to Zimbabwe: A Political History"; "Africa at the End of the Twentieth Century"; and "Regional Integration in Africa."
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