Edward Moringe Sokoine (1 August 1938 – 12 April 1984) was a two-term Prime Minister of Tanzania serving from 13 February 1977 to 7 November 1980 and again from 24 February 1983 to 12 April 1984.
Edward Moringe Sokoine had a developmental conception of the village.
Sokoine saw the village as a harbinger of self-reliant, national development and the peasant as an agency of change.
He was a person of unimpeachable personal integrity.