Julius Nyerere Intellectual Festival Week" is a festival of lectures, debates, meetings and other events exploring the unity and development of the African continent. Named after independent Tanzania's founding father and leading pan-Africanist Mwalimu ("teacher") Julius Nyerere, the festival will be attended by academics from Tanzania, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda and South Africa as well as representatives of the Dakar-based pan-African research organisation CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa).