kemcho mr MS A.K.A M GOAT kuna sual nilikuwa nataka kufahamu jee katika kupigania uhuru kulikuwa na mashujaa wowote wenye asili ya kihindi au walikuwa wanatumia golo peke yake
(yule jamaa asie na dini then kavaa msalaba anatumia jicho moja kama fundi saa anapapatika sana cc:boko haam)
Hasanali,
Tuanze na
Patwa.
Nakuwekea hapa habari zake kama nilivyomwandika katika kitabu changu:
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[TD]On 23 rd October, the nucleus of TANU membership in Tanga met to elect
its first leadership.
Hamis Heri was elected chairman and Peter Mhando secretary.
A total of forty-five people attended the meeting and TANU cards were
issued to them.
Mwalimu Kihere attended this meeting but was not given any role to play in
TANU.
A members' committee was formed out of the eleven founding members who
met in the first meeting the previous month.
The committee was made up ofthe following: Abdallah Rashid Sembe, Mohamed
Kajembe, Victor Mkello, Dhili Mgunya, Ali Mohamed, Abdallah Mohamed and Mohamed
Sadik.
Peter Mhando offered his house as the first TANU branch office in Tanga.
Soon after this meeting the elders in Tanga, led by Makoko Rashid, a former TAA
member, began to campaign for the new political party.
TANU received another boost when the rich Asian
Sadik Ali Patwa joined the Party.
Patwa was a Shia Muslim who immigrated to Tanganyika from Zanzibar and
settled in Tanga in 1918 just at the end of the First World War.
Patwa established a soda factory and prospered.
At that time during colonialism, when his fellow Asians who formed the powerful
commercial class in Tanganyikawere looked down upon Africans, Patwa sat,
shared and sipped coffee with Africans of his age while his sons were making
the first eleven of the local African football clubs.
This was a very rare occasion and an unusual gesture to come from an Asian family.
Patwa supported the independence movement financially and morally, and campaigned
for TANU among his own Asian community.
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[TD]During the struggle Nyerere used to joke with
Patwa, telling him, "Mzee Patwa, after
independence I think we should appoint you our High Commissioner to India."
But
Patwa never saw free Tanganyika; he died before independence was achieved.
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