By
Acting publicity secretary
It is a little over a year ago that Ambassador Juma Volter Mwapachu was laid to rest in Pande Village, Tanga Region. On Sunday April 19, a jovial remembrance event was held for the man simply known as JV to many. It is no child’s play to do justice to JV’s illustrious life, as I had stated upon his death.
In his introductory remarks during the remembrance evening, a former law professor at the University of Dar es Salaam, Chris Peter Maina, laid out the entire gamut of JV’s writings.
It is my deeply considered view that after Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, no one else matched him on the subject of writing on issues critically focused on development questions for Tanzania. A public intellectual par excellence was JV.
