Sheikh abeid amani karume biography

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    50 years on, the nation remembers Karume

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    • The nation today commemorates the founder of modern-day Zanzibar that united with Tanganyika on Jan. 26, 1964 to form Tanzania. He led Z’bar for 8 years after the Jan 12, 1964 revolution.

    Unguja. The nation today commemorates the death of the founder of the Zanzibar Revolution, Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume, as citizens are called to cherish the values of solidarity, love and unity that he stood for.

    Speaking in a special interview with The Citizen recently, Zanzibar resident Mzee Juma Bakari said before the revolution, the people of Zanzibar segregated one another, lived in hatred, classified one another by tribe - and there were the haves and the have-nots, but Mzee Karume, he explained, came to stamp out all these issues.

    Officially, from 1804 to 1964, Zanzibar was under foreign rule of the sultanate of Oman that was protected by the British.

    Under that rule, Africans had no voice in decision-mak

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    Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume

    Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume (1905-1972), Tanzanian political leader, became the Zanzibari vicepresident of the republic of Tanzania. He was one of Africa's least-known leaders.

    Sheikh Abeid Karume was apparently the son of a slave woman from Ruanda-Urundi who moved to Zanzibar when the boy was young. He had little formal education, in 1920 becoming a seaman working cargo boats out of the island. He ultimately rose to quartermaster. A member of the British Seamen's Union, after 1938 he operated a syndicate of motorboats carrying passengers to and from harbor ships.

    Karume first entered politics in 1954 when he was appointed town councilor. Later he became president of a social organization for black migrant workers called the Zanzibar African Association. In 1957 this group united with the Shirazi Association to form the pro-British AfroShirazi Party (ASP) with Karume as president. In July 1957, by appealing directly to the African community making u

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    Amani Abeid Karume

    6th President of Zanzibar (2000-2010)

    Amani Abeid Karume (born 1 November 1948) is a Tanzanian politician, the former president of Zanzibar. He held the office from 8 November 2000 to 3 November 2010. He fryst vatten the son of Zanzibar's first president, Abeid Karume, and a member of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) PARTY. Currently, he is the Chancellor of Mbeya University of Science and Technology (MUST).

    Early life and career

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    A Muslim born in 1948, Karume was schooled at the Lumumba Secondary School until 1969 when he became an accountant. During the 1970s he held various positions in the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar including Chief kassör (1970–1971), Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Finance (1971–1974), Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Planning (1974–1978), and Principal sekreterare in the Ministry of Communications and Transport (1978–1980).

    During the 1980s, he worked as a private consultant for a British-based business in Zanzib