Hussein J Mahenga
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- Mar 5, 2012
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I have been reading history books, but in sum ending up in despair and unsatisfied! I happened to be enthusiastic in thoroughly studying the history of Tanganyika, call it Tanzania as it is, its independence in particular, but I don't exactly remember the time had I read anywhere the name of Abdulwahid Sykes, the superson of Tanganyika. Perhaps this compliments the fact that I was always studying the doctored history of Tanzania, roughly, falsely and with biasness researched by the Party-emotional persons like Mayanja Kiwanuka and the Kivukoni Ideological College; the history that has in fact been accorded 'the national history' status.
When I met Mohamed Said in person at his residence in Magomeni Mapipa, Ngoja na Jaribu Street, house No. 14, I carried with me the copy of his 358-page The Life and Times of Abdulwahid Sykes (1924-1968) book which of course I have bought at Ibn Hazim bookshop in Kariakoo, opposite The Manyema Mosque, one day before my visit, on 21st of September this year. In fact, I was so much curious to peep into the pages he wrote in because I have had been in affectionate with the book itself, let alone the author, since my times in studies at least two years back; first had I came to know at least the title when I usually, especially in the mid-nights, used to visit his personal blog to read asunder treatises he himself wrote than I started feeling the 'doctored' history I have been exposed to before, at least in all my days in school.
The foreword alone by Dr. Hamza Mustafa Njozi arose my lusts to turn over the first chapter, which to be precise created my super addiction to keep turning the pages over and over, tirelessly.
No sooner had I turned the 'epilogue' of this sweetest history book than I indeed started pitying myself of being lied by the history I used to answer history question in my history exams and score highest marks with 'excellent' subject teacher's remarks on my papers' tops.
Describing a historical joint TANU pioneers' photograph, Mohamed Said says, 'This photograph is the only living memory the Party has of the late Abdulwahid. His name only appears on the general list of the TANU pioneers when there is need to mention the seventeen founder members' (p. 340). Of course, who could be that much bold to unearth these facts of Abdul that have been catapulted by the party itself in favor of 'the Father of the Nation?'. I told, in our talk at his residence, the author that, it is possible someone among the TANU pioneers was determined to 'steal Abdul's own thunder!'. He paid me a laughter in turn, teasingly, knowing that I will be studying the facts in his book; the book worth to read and include in our school curricula, if that is worthy for us all, as youths, to advocate for.
12th of October, as it is the 14th of October, should in particular be 'Abdul Day' for the nation to honor his peculiar contributions to the land, the motherland which has sidelined his thunder!
Kongole sana Sheikh Mohamed Said!
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Mohamed Said
When I met Mohamed Said in person at his residence in Magomeni Mapipa, Ngoja na Jaribu Street, house No. 14, I carried with me the copy of his 358-page The Life and Times of Abdulwahid Sykes (1924-1968) book which of course I have bought at Ibn Hazim bookshop in Kariakoo, opposite The Manyema Mosque, one day before my visit, on 21st of September this year. In fact, I was so much curious to peep into the pages he wrote in because I have had been in affectionate with the book itself, let alone the author, since my times in studies at least two years back; first had I came to know at least the title when I usually, especially in the mid-nights, used to visit his personal blog to read asunder treatises he himself wrote than I started feeling the 'doctored' history I have been exposed to before, at least in all my days in school.
The foreword alone by Dr. Hamza Mustafa Njozi arose my lusts to turn over the first chapter, which to be precise created my super addiction to keep turning the pages over and over, tirelessly.
No sooner had I turned the 'epilogue' of this sweetest history book than I indeed started pitying myself of being lied by the history I used to answer history question in my history exams and score highest marks with 'excellent' subject teacher's remarks on my papers' tops.
Describing a historical joint TANU pioneers' photograph, Mohamed Said says, 'This photograph is the only living memory the Party has of the late Abdulwahid. His name only appears on the general list of the TANU pioneers when there is need to mention the seventeen founder members' (p. 340). Of course, who could be that much bold to unearth these facts of Abdul that have been catapulted by the party itself in favor of 'the Father of the Nation?'. I told, in our talk at his residence, the author that, it is possible someone among the TANU pioneers was determined to 'steal Abdul's own thunder!'. He paid me a laughter in turn, teasingly, knowing that I will be studying the facts in his book; the book worth to read and include in our school curricula, if that is worthy for us all, as youths, to advocate for.
12th of October, as it is the 14th of October, should in particular be 'Abdul Day' for the nation to honor his peculiar contributions to the land, the motherland which has sidelined his thunder!
Kongole sana Sheikh Mohamed Said!
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Mohamed Said
