Tanzania's Benjamin Mkapa: the peace maker, true East African and Pan-Africanist: President Benjamin Mkapa at the end of his tenure in December 2005. Mwanzo Millinga/AFP via Getty Images)The former Tanzanian president Benjamin William Mkapa, who died on July 24, was the country’s third president. He was in office from 1995 to 2005. Born in 1938 in Masasi south-eastern … [Read more...] about Tanzania’s Benjamin Mkapa: the peace maker, true East African and Pan-Africanist | The Conversation