PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA (1985 - 1995)
Birth:
Ali Hassan Mwinyi was born on May 8, 1923 at Kivure village, Kisarawe District, Coast Region, which borders Dar es salaam.
Education
President Mwinyi started primary education at Mangapwani in Zanzibar in 1933 where he completed standard four in 1936. He joined Dole in 1937 and completed in 1942. Thereafter, he joined Teachers Training College in 1943 and graduated in 1944.
President Mwinyi pursued a General Certificate of Education by correspondence between 1950 and 1954. He pursued a Teachers Diploma Course at Durham University, United Kingdom from 1954 to 1956. He also studied English at the Regents Institute in the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1960, through correspondence.
Mr. Mwinyi further attended Training of Teachers Course in the United Kingdom, where he was attached from 1961 to 1962. He further studied Arabic through the Egyptian Arabic Radio Programme between 1972 and 1974.
Employment
President Mwinyi's first employment was in 1951, as a teacher at Mangapwani primary school. He became Head Teacher of Bumbwini Primary School in Zanzibar from 1951 to 1954.
After pursuing further studies in the United Kingdom, he returned to Zanzibar to teach at the Islands' Teachers' Training College between 1956 to 1961. Between 1963 to 1964, he was Acting Principal Secretary, Ministry of Education in Zanzibar. In 1964 and 1965, he was Deputy Treasurer of The Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP), Makadara Branch, Zanzibar. From 1965 to 1970, Mr. Mwinyi was Deputy General Manager, State Trading Corporation, Zanzibar.
Political career
In 1970, Mr. Mwinyi was appointed Minister of State in the President's Office Between 1970 and 1972, he was appointed Minister for Health in the Union Government. From 1972 to 1975, he was Minister for Home Affairs in.
In 1975 he was appointed Ambassador to Egypt where he served for two years. From 177 to 1981, Mr. Mwinyi was Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism in the Union Government From 1982 to 1983.
He was Minister of State in the Vice- President's Office. In 1983, he was Interim President of Zanzibar and Interim Chairman of the Revolutionary Council. In 1984, He was elected President of Zanzibar, Chairman of the Zanzibar Revolutionary Council and appointed Vice-President of the Union Government. Mr. Mwinyi was elected President of the United Republic of Tanzania in 1985 and was reelected in 1990.
Political Philosophy
President Mwinyi led Tanzania at a period when the country was undergoing tremendous transformation economically, socially and politically. It was during his first term that Tanzania embarked, with speed, on economic reforms. It was during his second term that Tanzania adopted multipartysm. It was in the same term that Tanzania saw a proliferation of diverse media institutions. President Mwinyi is credited and remembered for his liberalism.
Personal Traits
President Mwinyi is a humble person, wise and fond of reading. He also enjoys playing with his grandchildren or tending his fruits garden at his Msasani residence.
Tanzania,
is a country on the east coast of east Africa. 
