On the Day of Union, just prior to mixing the soils of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, President Nyerere decreed the Emblem of Tanganyika would become the Emblem of Tanzania.
On the Day of Union, immediately before combining the lands of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, President Nyerere declared that the emblem of Tanganyika would become the symbol of the newly formed country, Tanzania.