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Open this photo in gallery: Since its opening last year, the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Leadership School has spearheaded China’s efforts to spread its ideological influence among the continent’s biggest political parties, and to ensure the perpetuation of their rule.Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Leadership School As they arrive in the grandiose glass-and-steel entrance hall of the $55-million leadership academy, past the neatly groomed lawns and rows of newly planted palm trees, the cadres from some of Africa’s most powerful political parties are greeted by a large portrait of Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong. Decades after defeating their colonial enemies, the former liberation...
