Oscar Kambona

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Oscar Kambona

1st Minister of External Affairs

In office 19631966

President Julius Nyerere

Succeeded by Chedial Mgonja

Personal details

Born 13 August 1928

Mbinga District, Tanganyika

Died July 1997 (aged 68)

London, United Kingdom

Resting place Tanzania

Nationality Tanzanian

Political party TADEA

Other political

affiliations Tanganyika African National Union

Spouse(s) Flora Moriyo

Children Mosi

Neema

Alma mater Middle Temple

Religion Anglicanism

Oscar Salathiel Kambona was the first foreign affairs minister of Tanganyika and the second

most influential and most popular leader in the country after President Julius Nyerere.

He was born on 13 August 1928 on the shores of Lake Nyasa in a small village called Kwambe

near Mbamba Bay in the district of Mbinga near Songea in southern Tanganyika. He died in

London in July 1997.

He was the son of the Reverend David Kambona and Miriam Kambona. Reverend David

Kambona belonged to the first group of African priests to be ordained into the Anglican Church

of Tanganyika.

Kambona received his primary school education at home under a mango tree in his home village.

The tree still stands today. He was taught by his parents and by an uncle, all of whom were

teachers.

He was then sent to St Barnabas Middle School in Liuli in southern Tanganyika not far from his

home. He also attended Alliance Secondary School in Dodoma in central Tanganyika.

A British Anglican bishop paid Oscar Kambona's school fees because his father could not afford

to do so. The school fees were 30 Pounds per year. Kambona is reported to have said he

convinced the Anglican bishop to pay his school fees by reciting the Lord's Prayer in English.

He was then selected to attend Tabora Boys Senior Government School where he first met Julius Nyerere who was already teaching at St. Mary's, a Catholic school in the town of Tabora.