ABSTRACT
When Julius Nyerere stepped down as Tanzania's first president, he took up – among many duties of an elder statesman – the chair of the South–South Commission. In preface to its report, he wrote:
[T]he South does not know the South – what goes on in its countries, what are the ideas of its peoples, what its potential is, and the manner in which South–South co-operation can widen development options for all countries. Instead each country is forced to make its own mistakes, without being able to learn from the experience of their successes. (Nyerere, 1990, pv)
