Committee of the Third World Forum and a founding member of The International Foundation for Development Alternatives (IFDA). In 1977 he left the country for a high-profile appointment in the UN, first in Switzerland and then later New York, USA. During his time in the UN he was a member of the UN Committee for Development Planning, worked for the Brandt Commission and worked for the UN Director General for Development and International Cooperation till his untimely death caused by cancer on 30 March 1982. Rweyemamu is remembered as the father of Tanzanian economics and made his greatest impact through the remarkable concentration of his students in top echelons of government and academia. These include: Jakaya Kikwete, the fourth President of the United Republic of Tanzania; Benno Ndulu, the Governor of the Bank of Tanzania. Ibrahim Lipumba, Tanzania’s academician and politician; Delphin Rwegasira, Tanzanian economist. In 1982, his friends and colleagues established the Justinian F. Rweyemamu Prize in order to perpetuate the academic spirit of J F Rweyemamu and to stimulate young Africans to follow his example in placing their talent at the service of their people. It was established by four of the institutions with which Justinian Rweyemamu was affiliated: CODESRIA, the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, IFDS, and the Third World Forum. Among the recipients of this prize is Calestous Juma, a prominent Kenyan scientist based at Harvard University. Selected writings Underdevelopment and Industrialization in Tanzania: A Study of Perverse Capitalist Development (Nairobi: Oxford University Press, 1973) Towards Socialist Planning The Teaching of Economics in Africa Industrialization and Income Distribution in Africa Pugwash on Self-reliance North-South: A Programme for Survival (The Brandt report) Dialogue for a New Order Third World Options: Power, security and hope for another development (Tanzania Publishing House, 1992). References 1942 births 1982 deaths Tanzanian economists Fordham University alumni Harvard University alumni Tanzanian mathematicians Academic staff of the University of Dar es Salaam 20th-century economists