Abeid Amani Karume (4 August 1905 – 7 April 1972)
Abeid Karume ruled Zanzibar for 8 years, from January 12, 1964, until his assassination on April 7, 1972. He obtained the title of president as a result of a revolution which led to the deposing of Jamshid bin Abdullah, the last reigning Sultan of Zanzibar, in January 1964. Three months later, Zanzibar united with Tanganyika […]
Shaaban Robert (1909-1962)
Shaaban Robert (1909-1962), born on the 1st January in Vibambani village, next to Machui 10KM South of Tanga was the greatest of the Swahili didactic-moralistic writers of the colonial period. He went to Msimbazi School in Daressalaam between (1922—1926) where he was one of the first Tanganyikans to pass the examination for a School Leaving […]